"Broken Embrace": Let True Love Live Forever in Movies
Liu Qiang loves movies
I have always admired Almodóvar's ability to make up stories, and "Broken Embrace" clearly stemmed from a question - what if the director fell in love with the heroine? Starting from this question, Almodovar slowly diverged, setting up obstacles for the lovers, for example, the heroine is the wife of a wealthy businessman, for example, the director's ex-girlfriend is full of jealousy about this relationship, until the director and heroine go tragic. ending. Just looking at the outline of the text, you will feel that this story is no different from ordinary love dog blood, but don't forget that it is Almodovar's work, and there must be something different.
In ordinary movies, the work or identity of the characters will have an impact on the theme of the movie, but it will not be very large. The main role is to make the characters fuller and more grounded. However, the directorship of the hero of the film, Madio, is very important. If Madio were to change his career, the story would almost have to be rewritten. It can be said that the focus of this film is not that Madio fell in love with Lena, but that Madio The film director fell in love with Lena.
How is it different for a film director to fall in love with a woman than for any other man? Most of them are the same, such as love at first sight, glue like paint, caring, exclusive possession, etc. The only difference is that the film director can make the woman he loves live forever in his movie, along with his gaze on her , to seal the love of two people in an eternal image. Lina's wealthy businessman husband finally had murderous intentions on the lovers, maybe he realized this and completely ignited his jealousy.
Indeed, the privilege of an artist in love makes others hate it. Even if you can give a woman gold and silver, I'm afraid it can't compare to the poor boy who wrote her into poems, painted her into paintings, and carved her into a statue. But this is nothing to envy. God will give you some and not some. In order to create, artists always have many twists and turns, and their emotions are ups and downs. In the field of love, they should be given a little advantage that others do not have. Moreover, Choosing an artist as a life partner means that you have no connection with the happiness of the world. Being able to achieve immortality in works of art can also be regarded as a reward for your hard work.
One of the things I didn't like about the design of this movie was Lena's background. To get it, Almodovar didn't want to blur the focus of the director and Lena's love, and didn't want the audience to be caught in the dilemma of judging whether Lena's cheating was right or wrong, so he designed the rich businessman's husband as a selfish, disrespectful for the old, addicted to sensuality , A ruthless villain, so that Lena and the director fall in love without any ethical burden, and even make their relationship a little bit like the man saving the woman from fire and water. It's not a bad idea, and I can't say that there is no similar situation in real life, but I always feel that it is too dramatic, too coincidental, too "classical" and "typical", and lacks the complex and ambiguous gray texture of life. Just imagine, if the rich businessman's husband is a good person, and he and Lena are in free love, Lina later met the director, and it is normal to empathize and leave the relationship. Although the rich businessman's husband is in pain, he is still willing to fulfill his lover, and silently wishes her and his love in his heart. The director, it's just that his son, as a bystander, can't take this breath and kills Lena... This design will not bring any harm to the existing theme of the film, and the role of the rich businessman's husband can jump out of the stereotype of "being rich and not benevolent" to be more humane This kind of conflict and tragedy between good people is even more embarrassing.
All in all, it's a good film.
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