Almodovar, "Return"

Estefania 2021-12-13 08:01:10



The story is simple, but the director plain storytelling method graceful, like life

it's a woman's world, there is no other damage in addition to the role of men, strong heroine is plain that every woman has such a strong, their true Emotions are the emotions of women, mothers, sisters, and daughters. In the novel "Little Aunt Duohe", Duohe has no relatives. Her only wish is to give birth and to secrete new life from her own body. That is her relatives, maternal instinct, and human instinct. The heroine and her mother have been strangers for several years, and the endless love and hate have led to indifference. Their life is difficult, but they persist in perseverance. It is the natural maternal brilliance that sustains this persistence. The daughter was killed. She calmly handled the accident and told her daughter that "I killed your father." These simple details also reflect simple love.

I went with my sister and daughter to visit the aunt who raised her, the elderly and delirious aunts, they also nag, worry, how to eat, how to take care of themselves like all women. Everyone has experienced this kind of scene in their childhood. . Follow my mother to visit the elderly elders, they kindly look at you, the continuation of life in the past, I do not know why we are placed high hopes, at that time we were ignorant and could not experience the meaningful gaze.

Life is always a story of people and people, no matter in the Spanish countryside, or in any metropolis, or the ever-changing fate of China in "Little Auntie Crane". Neighbors, relatives, friends, people's concerns, suspicions, and whispers, here are all plain and kind, just like the people around us. Every woman in the story is respectable. Aunt Baoluo's neighbor, a bald-headed smoking woman, takes care of this elderly neighbor with all her heart, and treats her relatives as if they were relatives. These women are living alone, worrying and resenting in their hearts, and living in endless difficulties for a long time.

There is a climax part, I believe many people are moved by it. The beautiful heroine sings a song in the restaurant that has not been sung for many years. The mother hiding in the car looks at her daughter from the window, tears streaming down her face. This woman is in a song. Singing about her life, the beautiful memories of her passing, those sweet days are now gone, life is going on in such a gloomy way, but she still has to face it bravely, live bravely, these hard life, these Changeable destiny, these love and hate relatives, how bitter in their hearts.

The moment the mother and daughter met, the heroine instinctively yelled "Mom", which was really a visceral voice. How many times she wanted to yell but never yelled it. This sudden change made her at a loss. She was alone. She had dealt with how many sudden situations, but at this moment she was at a loss. She dragged her daughter and stumbled into the street, feeling helpless. At this time, her daughter had matured quite a lot, and the accident of her grandmother made her inherit. This is an emotional connection between women, and the daughter takes her mother back again. The director's narrative is really groundbreaking, ordinary and earth-shattering.


The ending of the story is full of tenderness. Three generations, four women, came together to the pasture of grass, as if their lives could finally go on well.

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  • Irene: Don't say that, Raimunda, or I'll start crying. And ghosts don't cry.

  • Sole: Mom?

    Irene: Hum?

    Sole: There's something you want me to do, isn't?

    Irene: Cut my hair.

    Sole: I mean if there's something you couldn't do alive and doesn't let you rest.

    Irene: There are always things undone. Or bad done. And my life has been no exception. Look, I don't know if I can fix them, but if I can, it's up to me to do it.

    Sole: [after a long silence] Customers will arrive soon. What are we going to do?

    Irene: We attend to them. I'll help you.

    Sole: But I can't introduce you as my mother. They all know I'm an orphan.

    Irene: Then I'll pretend to be foreign.

    Sole: Foreign? Where from?

    Irene: ¿Dominican?

    Sole: No. There are lots of them on the neighborhood and they would notice the accent.

    Irene: ¿Chinese? Madrid is full of Chinese people.

    Sole: Who's going to believe that you're from China, mom?

    [Thinks]

    Sole: Something strange. Not very common around here... Rusian.

    Irene: Do wou really think I look more Rusian than Chinese?

    Sole: Yes. Rusian women are just like us, mom. Look, whatever you hear, keep your mouth shut. And it can't looked in your face that you understand us.