sunshine, sand, cloak, bright red dianthus, song of the bullfighter, women wearing long skirts sitting on the balcony. Stealing, bloody, neurotic. Homosexuality, transgender people, sexual confusion, violence and death, desire and passion, love, yelling in chaos, black plots and comic effects, non-stop sadness, hope of constant resurrection... Spain, about there, Everything under the sky and above the earth, the story of the image, Almodovar. Almodovar, a fat gay in Spain, he is very cute.
Regarding cuteness, the word means a lot to me. I hope I can use it frequently, just like girls like to use "pig's head" to call their lover over and over again. When using cute to describe someone or something, I feel very happy, that life is still a bit interesting and worth living.
Almodovar is cute because he is funny. For a pseudo-artistic lover who takes the fun of picking up people’s teeth, what I know, those film masters who are not too many nor too few, are very interesting and have always been so interesting, in a limited range of impressions and choices. Within the standard, Almodovar and Quentin are the first.
Quentin is a naughty boy, and his fun comes from ingenuity and extraordinary things. He exaggerated violence, but turned the violence into a weird and delightful toy, all the blood consumed crazily, and the cruel killing shots, only for the purpose of creating a dazzling firework-using gunpowder from other people to make bullets, with the same wit, People use to load or try to load heavy. Quentin refused. He didn't care about the weight at all, as long as it was light. So he never lifts weights lightly, but Almodovar does.
Almodovar lets his characters deal with the bleakness of life with comical, hysterical and peculiar smiles. The thick black satin is sprinkled with flying flowers and gold thread, which is glamorous and lively, and the basic tattoo is not so obvious, which is acceptable. His films are always farce chaotic, and the relationship between the characters is bizarre and complicated: the daughter marries his mother’s old lover, the kidnapper falls in love with the kidnappers, it’s trivial, transgender, gay, voyeur, rapist, prostitute, and you. The craziest nuns you can see are entangled by fate, murder, bloody crimes, sex, lingering death, acting out weird stories you can't imagine. From the perspective of normal people, this is definitely a perverted and absurd world. Most of the people in the play have unsound nerves, and their lives are pretty bad. The problem is that they love, die, suffer, and struggle to survive. They are overjoyed and on the verge of destruction, but the audience still burst into joyous laughter from time to time.
There are so many funny and abrupt incidents, there are so many helplessness and yearning, watching it, I can't help but appreciate it. This is where the magic of Almodovar lies. It has nothing to do with black humor, with life itself, and with a certain attitude.
二
But why should I say something, because it is summer and the days become longer. On the sidewalks of this small city, all the roses are in bloom. The compact little flowers, the crimson color, climb silently, and cling to their territories. The color and grace are reminiscent of thirty years old. Woman. Because all the trees were so green that they began to stagnate, the branches and leaves fell, and there was a slow mood moving in the air. I began to be able to sit at night with nothing to expect and watch movies with nothing. I just finished "Everything About My Mother". This is the seventh Almodovar movie I watched. It's really good-looking. After reading it, I always wanted to find someone to say something, but I didn't find it. Regarding the whole situation, that's it.
"Everything About My Mother", "I", "My name is Esteban, and I died at the age of seventeen, a rainy night. That night, I wanted the autograph of the heroine of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and was hit by a car in a hurry My mother worked for the dead donation organization and met the need. She donated my heart to the patient. She is a determined woman and I love her very much. After I died, she cried at night and then left for Barcelona. Go to find my biological father. I haven’t seen my father. My mother said he was dead before I was born, but I know that he is still somewhere in the world. What happened."
"Unexpectedly, my father is a transgender person. He planted me in his mother's belly and ran away as a prostitute. My mother found him in Barcelona and met their old friend, the transgender La Agrado, met a peculiar nun Rosa. Rosa made up his mind to work in a war-torn place. The saint did not care about life and death, but got entangled with his father, contracted AIDS, gave birth to a child and died. The heroine I admire Huma, her partner is a drug addicted woman, but she loves her madly. Just such a few women and transgender women, their lives are very miserable, but they Dress up beautifully, laugh after crying, and cry after laughing."
"I don't understand them very well, I was too young when I died. But I think they belong to a group, and only the power of such a group can be moved. God, finally created a miracle-that child, my brother, was infected with HIV when he was born, and the virus disappeared inexplicably a year later, causing the medical experts to rush to him like crazy. Think of it as the most wonderful baby. I don’t quite understand these, but I will try my best to understand, because my wish is to be a writer. There are so many things in my little book, everything about my mother, if I live, there will be one day, I know, I'll write a book for her, or to make a film. now I die, though I kept thinking a little blue, I still feel that my brother should be just fine. "
three
Regarding the movie, the plot is like this. Because it was awkward to narrate, I had to use the mouth of the dead child to say it as dull and long as the day of this summer. In fact, the film is very catchy and beautiful, so that you don’t seem to be watching a movie, but it’s as if you are touching it. Yes, touch, good-looking movies are often like this, such as facing an entity. It has heat and texture, and it hurts to breathe. Regarding pain, many movies are painful. If it was Fassbender, the pain he caused was so painful that he wanted to fight back before he was exhausted, and wanted to strangle him to death with silk stockings. If it's Bergman, what he brings is dull pain and poor breathing in rainy weather. As a result, you don't want to strangle him, but you want to hit the wall by yourself. They are not suitable for summer. Summer is more suitable to see Almodovar's vulgar and warm, red and yellow color contrasting pictures, and figures with deep and rough facial features, such as Matisse's paintings. The senses are strong, but the shock and pain can be endured by the tired individual in the worldly life.
Almodovar never let the character fall into the dilemma of life and death. In him, life or death may bring salvation-perhaps out of kindness. More likely, it is because of his generosity and Spanish unrestrainedness. His character obeys instinct and sacrifices to lust, but will not be destroyed by prejudice and viciousness. His love of life and death is Carmenian. Not Hester, not Tessa, nor Mad Girl Betty, and so on. This kind of generosity and unrestrainedness is very cute.
Regarding lust, it is a beautiful and pure proposition. I like all the grief, cruel, bloody, weird, and so vivid that it derives. It offsets the destined death in life, and even offsets death itself. Wait a minute, the premise of all this is to acknowledge the meaning of lust. Nihilists may be the most elegant. They never fail, only evaporate, but isn’t evaporation the most miserable?
I don’t know of a director who is more willing to recognize the meaning of eroticism than Almodovar, and I have never seen a director who is more willing to give understanding and sympathy to women, homosexuals, and transgender people than him-or because of the power of eroticism in them. More prominent, the content that can be expressed is farther away from various concepts.
In this sense, Almodovar's movie world is very simple. It is not to think things simple, because in him, things can be reduced to simple. This reduction is simple and lovely-in addition to any established norms, beliefs, and known moral models, there are original narratives about freedom and dreams. Almodovar avoided the pursuit of meaning. He did not deliberately comfort people and provide people with fantasy for a certain belief or value orientation. The beautiful warmth, the miraculous joy of everyone, and the tragic and evil irresistible tragedies all happen so naturally. All the power that drives the destiny comes from human life itself. No matter what the circumstances, it must be admitted that life itself is very cute and vitality is very cute.
In "Everything About My Mother", what makes people smile after weeping and feel calm after pain is also life itself, its power.
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