In these dull days during the new crown epidemic, each of us has more or less medical knowledge and is worried that we and our family members will have more abnormal lung films. In Almodovar's autobiographical masterpiece "Pain and Glory", there is also a large section of beautiful and worrying medical images. As a film director, the protagonist Salvador has gained geography at various film festivals; and as a patient suffering from overwork, he also mastered anatomy during physical examinations. Serious spinal problems caused systemic pain, reaching the brain nerve center, and then Lead to mental illness and depression. The director also admitted that Salvador, played by the queen star Antonio Banderas, is, to a large extent, Almodovar himself.
Writing autobiography in films will more or less blur the boundary between reality and creation. The choir and church that El Salvador has experienced in the film, the fantasies about the same-sex body and the subsequent coming out, the doubts and rebellion about education under the autocratic system, are also the experiences that Almodovar has had in his life. And the sexual assault of the growing church and the betrayal of the friendship in the creation, we, as audiences, can't figure out whether this is the real painful past of the director, or the artistic description and storytelling of the past. In short, these creations from memory have made the glory of Salvador in the play and Almodovar outside the play. In the movie, there is another layer of in-play drama that blurs the boundary between reality and reality. Salvador really analyzes himself, but does not want to sign the stage one-man show "Addiction", which is directed and starred by the actor who broke up with him, and reunited as a result. To the gay Federico who knows the secret past. In the present tense, Salvador has reached an understanding with his old friends and old relationships; in the past tense, he missed his great mother, but regretted not being able to bring her home to the end.
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