Yesterday, I saw his latest film "Return".
In his film world, men betray, abandon, selfish, and cannot even identify with their own gender, thus transgender; women no matter their age, strong, beautiful, friendly, no matter how unfortunate they are, they still survive tenaciously.
"Return" is no exception, and even worse. There are only a few male faces in the camera: Raymonda's husband; the guy from the crew, the restaurant owner. The three people's scenes add up to no more than 5 minutes. There are also some faceless characters: Raymonda's father, raped his daughter, betrayed his wife, and is even more abominable.
I think "Return" is about the return of affection and affection between women. Raymonda was hurt by his father and mistakenly believed that his mother knew but ignored her. Since then, she hated her mother; the mother’s alienation from her daughter was unreasonable until she discovered what her husband had done and burned her husband to death in anger. Like his lover, but he has also become a wandering soul and has no ownership; Raymonda's husband wanted to violate her daughter and was killed by her daughter. Raymonda was determined to conceal this secret, even if discovered , Also said that she did it by herself; after she and her mother had cleared their previous suspicions, she realized that her mother was always her last support, so she wanted to tell her about the murder of her husband. At the end of the film, the mother watched Raymonda leave and closed the door. The expression on her face was complicated and gratifying. The mother was finally able to return to her daughter, and the daughter finally regained her trust and dependence on her mother. This is the comeback.
Penelope Cruz, in "Everything About My Mother", is still a calm young woman; here, she has become a mature and calm woman. The part singing in the restaurant was shocking.
Compared with the two films I have watched, "Return" is not so gorgeous, whether it is the color combination or the bizarre plot; but the warmth and affection in the film is moving.
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