In a playful way, Almodóvar describes a family made up only of women and spares no effort to praise them. Almodóvar's films have three characteristics: sex, violence, and color. Influenced by his childhood misfortune, Almodovar has his own unique views on the relationship between the sexes and women. Apart from being physically weaker than men, women are better in other aspects. Many women returning from May Day are not independent, gentle, and strong. In contrast, Almodóvar's films, especially in the comeback, seem to be inconsequential to the presence of men.
At the beginning of the movie, the widows in the village are cleaning the tombstones of their husbands. In the restaurant, a few women hold the banquet for the entire crew. Violence is a way for Almodóvar to demonstrate his critique and observation of society and politics. The playful death of the heroine Raymonde's father and alcoholic husband criticizes the bullying and persecution of women by this kind of male power. Watching Almodóvar's films never has to worry about visual fatigue because the vividness of the film is outrageous. The red car, the bright green door, and the characters' outfits in different colors are all designed to highlight women. Charm. The most used colors in the film are the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue, as if to imply that women are the keynote of all colors in the world.
The most memorable scene in the film is the murder scene that takes place in the kitchen. When Raymond returns home after a day of running around with his daughter, he is greeted by a messy home and a husband who has just lost his job, is addicted to alcohol, and has a game of life, and his daughter is greeted by the unclean peeps of his father. The montage that followed was more classic. The camera shot Raymond in the kitchen washing dishes from a top-down angle. What appeared on the screen was the sharp knife in her hand and her huge chest. When the picture turned, it was her husband who accidentally bumped into it.
After the woman's dressing, the scene changes again. Raymonde and her husband share a bed.The husband, who wants to have sex, is ruthlessly rejected by the tired Raymonde, so she can only do it by masturbating behind her back. These scenes are full of sexual innuendo and uneasy emotions. When Raymond returned home the next day after finishing cleaning at the airport, when the white clothes were slowly rolling in the washing machine, he was greeted by his husband in a pool of blood and his terrified daughter in the kitchen.
In the film, Almodovar deliberately reduced the impact of the murder on the protagonists. Afterwards, the grandmother also said that she wanted to go to the police station to surrender herself, but she gave up because she was worried that her sister would not be able to take care of herself and there was no relevant person concerned about the fire afterwards. I have found her. Similarly, although my husband was dead, no one noticed. His body had been lying there in the freezer of the restaurant for a month. Finally, with the help of the female neighbors, he was quietly captured. It is hidden by the river, dozens of kilometers away. Perhaps this is also a way for the director to criticize male characters and promote women.
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