"Everything About My Mother" is absolutely unprecedented, absolutely subverting any previous paradigm, and absolutely a panoramic display of Almodovar's concept of gender. Here, Almodovar is like a sentimental insight, standing on the ruins of the long-raised world of both sexes, using gentle lenses to reconstruct a beautiful world full of female care. In the whole film, you can’t even see any normal male: the teenager who died in a car accident grew up in a single-parent family where his father’s love was absent, and said to his mother insecurely, "Are you willing to sell my body for me?"; two The child’s father, who is depressed and weak due to transgender and AIDS, only returned to the role of father before he died; transgender Ayue, in addition to the first sexual characteristics, is completely the incarnation of female beauty, with a career and straightforwardness. On the contrary, his personality makes people appreciate and pity him more; the father of Alzheimer's, his biological daughter is close to him, and he doesn't know it at all. With his helpless sorrow, he shed tears and only left the sentence "Dad, I love you" and the news is in the middle of nowhere. The sea of people is endless on the streets; the newborn child suffering from AIDS seems to be the focus of the hope of the whole film, miraculously defeating the disease, although still in the infancy...The absence of men just shows the strong and independent inner heart of women. The decisive, rebirth-like tenderness and courage are absolutely unprecedented. The whole film shows the beauty of women's love, friendship, family and other human natures delicately and tenderly without being artificial. It is gentle and moving but inspiring. No wonder The film has swept all major film festivals since it was released, and became another masterpiece of Adao’s female care after "Speak to Her".
A genius will never give up any element that adds appeal to the lens, and Almodovar is like that. In order to exaggerate the feminine character and strong heart of women, he does his best to manage the scenes. Each picture is like a romantic oil painting, with gentle and rich colors, slow and smooth rhythm, which is very moving. In my impression, in addition to Antonioni and his "Red Desert", Shunji Yanjing, "Everything About Lily Zhou" and "Flower and Alice" seem to have never met a director who blends color and character in such a trivial way. In addition, the beauty of this silence even makes it difficult to distinguish whether the beautiful women in the play are around, on the screen, or still in the painting. I think, a long, long time later, I will still remember this great kind mother-Manuela, her tolerance, sincerity, kindness, beauty, integrity... and played by the breathtakingly beautiful Penelope The nun Laura, her beauty, truth, kindness, and the optimism, kindness, and open-mindedness of the transgender prostitute A Yue...the beauty of women is as beautiful as this.
I don't want to sing any feminist high-profile here, because this film, which is presented in an autobiographical style by a male director, best interprets the ultimate female beauty. I think that since Almodovar, I can jump out of Italy and Sweden and enjoy the "artistic writing" of Spanish film directors.
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