I love you. I didn't dare to say it until today. And you will never hear.
Why, why love can never communicate with each other. In the end, it was still a bone-wrenching loneliness.
——The inscription
looks extremely painful, the woman who wanders in madness and silence, and the man who stumbles and pushes obstacles away with a blank face. There was no communication at all, only the concern, tension and fear in the man's eyes, revealing a slight emotional connection. He obviously cared for her, but he didn't dare to come close at all, and no one could say for whom she was in pain or even despair. Amovado's film "Speak to Her", the mime "Muller Cafe" at the beginning, has set an unspeakable sadness tone for the film in the long and tragic voice of women.
Women have never been alone, but men are silent. This time the woman was silent, and the man's love grew more trivial. The film ostensibly writes the story of two men and their vegetative girlfriends. In fact, it expresses the despair of mutual understanding and communication ideals between lovers in an extreme way.
Sensitive Marco, how could he have such a sad mood in his heart? I shed tears when watching a mime, I feel sad when I miss my ex-girlfriend, and I am heartbroken when I hear the vibrato of the guitar singer singing "Dove". Compared with him, Lydia, who is a matador, is more like a man. She is hot, headstrong, and stubborn. I think in the first scene of the bullfight, Lydia and the bull continue to advance and retreat, and the rhythm of dealing with it seems to be a metaphor for the emotional pattern between a strong woman and a man. Proud Lydia, the bleeding bull, who wins and who loses seems to be clear at a glance. However, in the next game, Lydia was almost torn apart by the wild bull and fell on the bullring in a pool of blood, which also heralded her. The tragedy of fate. If it becomes a war of offensive and defensive exchanges between men and women, there can be no victory or defeat in the end, only you will die. And Lydia's fragility, her tears at the wedding, her tender kisses, only remained in Marco's heart. Only Marco knew that she was actually a ragdoll with a lot of wounds in her heart, but she insisted on appearing so tough. But Marco didn't know. Although he loved Lydia silently, he never understood how deeply she hurt another man. Because they missed too many opportunities in time, he didn't stop to listen to her, she wouldn't.
Another man, Benigno loves bright and simple. He is a man as pure as a missionary among the nurses. Erica, a girl in the dance class she has a crush on, has a car accident and becomes a vegetable. He happens to be her nurse. For the past four years, she has massaged, bathed, read, put on beautiful makeup, tied her hair, and pushed her outside to bask in the sun when the sun is good, and don't forget to put on her sunglasses. Everything he does is as natural as for normal people. Talking to Erica constantly every day made Marco feel very stupid. But Benino insisted:
"You have to be patient when talking to women
and touch them gently,
remembering that they exist and
they are alive."
Yes, I believe this is the heart of Almodovar, who claims to have made female films for a lifetime. In fact, men are the same, eager to be treated tenderly and completely. No one wants to be forced to be like the people in "Muller's Cafe", using desperate silence, madness, crying, and self-mutilation to express their inner hurt, right?
I remember a small detail in the film. Several times the camera flashed a black and white photo of Benino's home. It should be the wedding photo of his parents. Her mother is extremely beautiful, just like Erica. Next to it, there is a photo taken by Benino when Erica was in a coma. Benino is a man who looks silly and ignorant on the surface, but is as fragile and slender in his heart as Marco. He dreams of marrying Erica and buying beautiful furniture every day. Home is the warmest touch of bright color in his heart. He suffered from the trauma of the divorce of his parents in childhood, and took care of his paralyzed mother at home for 20 years. His heart seemed like a blank sheet of paper. He only knows how to care for women all his life, observe their needs, figure out how they feel, and then use his best to protect them from harm. He is like "Muller's Cafe" in anxiously moving tables and chairs for The woman cleared the way for the man. His love is pure and cowardly.
When it comes to "Speaking to Her", it is bound to mention the seven-minute silent film "Shrinking Lover". For the promise of "love you for a lifetime", the shrunken man, in order to love the body of a woman, would rather sacrifice himself for the rest of his life and give her the most secret and true pleasure. The carcass of a sleeping woman is primitive and beautiful like the earth. What does Amovado want to say through this passage? Benino said to Erica, I watched this movie and felt very confused. He muttered to himself while gently massaging Erica's body thousands of times. In the next episode, Erica became pregnant, Benino was accused of rape, went to jail, and was treated as a lunatic. Everyone refused to visit him except Marco. In the visiting room, Marco's shadow overlapped with Benino on the same glass, and it suddenly understood that they were the same person. They are men who can never let go of the past, loving and sentimental. Only they understand each other, and only they can use their palms to stick to each other tightly through the glass.
I don't think that Benino was tempted to commit a crime, because the virgin he faced the nakedness of a crushed woman for four years, so he didn't have to wait until this time to commit a crime. His heart was full, he just wanted to learn from the self-sacrificing man in that movie, and use all his love to make her happy, maybe, maybe to wake her up. His confusion is that he doesn't understand whether this pleasure in the movie really exists. He only has experience in caring for a woman, but he has never been in love, and he doesn't know how to hurt her.
Finally, when Benino committed suicide, I cried. He didn't want to live in an icy world where he didn't even have her hairpin. No one loves as kind and fearlessly as Benino. The first time Marco learned to speak to an unconscious person was at Benino's grave. He told him that Erica was awake. And the one who used all his strength to love her, the one who awakened him in her ear, could never come back.
There is very little information about the mime in the last part of the film. In the first half, it was a woman wearing a suspender skirt, like a star, on the arms of a row of men, like floating on the waves. Later, someone lifted her up, as if committing suicide, she fell down and was picked up and tortured again. From beginning to end, there were men holding microphones and spotlights following her, but she just closed her eyes, sighing again and again as if in pain. In this period, Marco couldn't help but wet his eyes, probably thinking of Lydia, who was tortured by the media during his lifetime. He knew the pain of the strong women in his heart. Under the superficial brilliance, under the attack of men, they were on the verge of collapse. There is nothing to say about the soul, only a sigh.
I know that Almodovar finally gave a slightly suspenseful ending, but somehow, I still feel sad and unable to tell. I hear over and over again the first TV drama heartbreaking "PALOMA", only to hear them sing:
goo call Gugu Gu ...... dove ah
goo call Gugu Gu ...... Do not cry ah
stone do not know, dove
they do not know how to love NS.
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