"All About My Mother" is one of Ah Dao's early works. The poster is very Spanish. The female character in a red top and blue jeans is sad to see. It is also included in "Parallel Mother", which is standard.
Bright and warm, not only is it visually warm, but even the performance of the characters is very dramatic and exaggerated. In addition, it is rich, all kinds of characters, doctors, nurses, actors, drivers, painters, nuns, street girls, as well as their distinctive lifestyles and attitudes towards life, a hundred flowers bloom. Many interesting details , such as Rosa's selfish and reserved mother, and the critical audience of the theater, are accepted on the premise that the actor opens his scars, laughs at himself in a playful tone, and then can laugh.
The story is very delicate, three "women" in one play, escaped and reborn several times, like reincarnation, and endless life. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA in 1999, and Cannes awarded it the Catholic Humane Spirit Award that year, you can see respect and tolerance in this film, first of all, the diversity of characters and lifestyles, the street girl , Neutral people, AIDS itself is of course terrible, some people discriminate against and even slander the sick people, but you can see tolerance and love in the movie, which is the great thing about this movie.
"All About My Mother" is about Manuela's life , three escapes and new births, the first time, escaped from her husband, gave birth to her son Esteban while pregnant, and raised her son alone for 17 years. The second time, the son died in a car accident, fled Madrid and returned to Barcelona. For the third time, friend Rosa died and returned to Madrid with Rosa's children.
Manuela has worked as a nurse, actor, assistant, nanny, and cleaner. Before giving birth to a son, she and her husband opened a restaurant in Barcelona. The strength and tenacity of this woman allowed her to travel in multiple roles.
The son gradually grew up and had the dream of becoming a writer. He used his mother Manuela as the writing material to describe the life of the mother, and told everything about the mother from the perspective of the son. The mother worked in the hospital and handled the contact information of organ donation. The mother I like watching dramas. When his son dies and writing about his mother is interrupted, Manuela's story does not end. Among the many roles, one of Manuela's roles that cannot be ignored is the mother. She gave the most love to her son. Before that, she loved her husband, and later she loved her friends and gave a lot of tenderness and kindness.
The first thing Manuela did when she returned to Barcelona was to find her old friend, Ayue. If she found Ayue, she could find her ex-husband, but her ex-husband had long since disappeared. However, Ayue has turned her life around. She is optimistic, lovely and cheerful. He had to go to work after his face was broken in the street, because his family was looted by his friends, so he took Manuela to find Rosa to help him find a job. Later, he replaced Manuela's acting assistant and was able to arrange things. It's not a problem, and she can also act as an extra to make amends in emergencies. She can hold the audience with her personal charm. How can such A Yue not be liked?
Both Ayue and Manuela have one thing - tenacity. No matter how bad life gets, you can still cry while you put on makeup and get ready to go to work. The other is her personality, bravery, honesty, all of this is not for nothing, just like what she said in the theater, her whole body was made at a lot of money, not cheap, not so simple, woman You should be nice to yourself, work and make money to make yourself more beautiful.
Penelope Cruz is really lush and beautiful in this film, playing Rosa shimmering. Rosa introduced work to Ayue and Manuela. She is a nun who helps the unemployed and the homeless. Rosa is gentle and kind, which is one of the reasons why she can be friends with Manuela and Ayue. In addition, she is equally brave. Being pregnant with the child of Manuela's ex-husband can explain everything. Rosa originally planned to leave Spain and go to El Salvador. She didn't care about the worldly vision, and played with Ayue and this group of people in fancy clothes and helped them. ,Help people who need help.
Manuela accompanied Rosa to the hospital once. On the way, she suddenly encountered Rosa's father and the family dog. Rosa leaned her head against the car window and watched her father who no longer knew her slowly leave. Sprinkling on her face and hair, her whole body is exuding light, like a virgin.
There are 2 pictures that impressed me the most.
First. After the death of her son, Manuela drove to Barcelona by car. The shadows of the trees outside the window, it was late at night, and the street lights kept flashing. Before leaving the sad place, now returning to the sad place, to tell the unfortunate news of the son's father, it is like a dream, and now I have to go back to the place where the story started, to tell the son's father, this unfortunate news. Barcelona's lights flickered, beautiful as if nothing had happened.
another one. Manuela and Ayue were looking for a job together. After Rosa introduced that the babysitter's job was not going well, Manuela was sitting by the cafe's open-air restaurant. She was reading the recruitment information in the newspaper. The troupe actor Red Brick was recruiting assistants. , This troupe is the troupe that Manuela and her son watched together in Madrid before. This red brick is also a theater actor that her son likes. The specific job may not be the most important. It is Manuela's improvement. After 2 escapes, she has returned and started a new life, looking for a new job. She went to apply for a job in a theatre troupe related to her son . Moving forward, Manuela did not stop.
All about mother Manuela, Esteban's mother, a competent friend, gentle and kind. Manuela suffered a life change, she had a lot of happy time, and she also shed a lot of tears with her husband, son, and friends. There was a wound on her heart, the wound healed into a scar, and the heart thumped, making fresh blood, and the blood flowed through the body, taking oxygen, and then it retracted, and reentered the heart, the scarred heart, and it started again. make blood.
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