The "pain" and "glory" in the title are not separate, and all the pain of the past is also your glory.
film made for myself
Movies are roughly divided into two types , one of which is made for everyone to see. It is necessary to pay attention to the audience's preferences, and to pay attention to the plot and the beginning and ending. Another kind of film is made for oneself to see, not to please others, only to serve oneself.
This film falls into the latter category, and the bar is high.
It is difficult for the audience to watch it, because the content of the film is all from the life of the director Almodovar, which makes it difficult for the audience to have a sense of substitution. 70-year-old Almodóvar is in Spain with a completely different environment, culture, religion and a huge age gap. So for this type of film, we can't focus too much on its plot, shots, editing, etc., it doesn't make much sense. What's more important is to feel the part of the director's experience that fits your heart from the film, and to experience the director's emotional fluctuations and your own emotional fluctuations.
This is a very sincere film because the director is bravely showing himself to the world.
It is often difficult for us to show our life (especially our emotions) to others, such as showing others our diary, or imagining putting our own shameful things and personal emotions on the school's official account with real name. ·It is very difficult to disclose to some people, let alone to the whole world, because showing yourself is a very courageous thing, you will consider whether it is necessary and courageous to accept the judgment of everyone.
But the director Almodovar has this courage, there is no doubt that he is a very great artist. At the same time, the director also obtained his reconciliation with himself and a relief from the past in the process of this presentation.
The "pain" and "glory" in the title are not separate, and all the pain of the past is also your glory.
emotion
The part that interests me more in this movie is the relationship between the male lead and his boyfriend. If you use a gender metaphor, the male protagonist is more feminine in this relationship.
The first hour of the film shows the male protagonist's illness and physical pain, his idleness in life, indifferent to everything and a state of spiritual desolation, maybe the director wants to contrast with the latter, but I think it's still a bit long. , makes me feel a sense of boredom.
The appearance of the male protagonist's ex-boyfriend is a turning point in the film.
When the ex-boyfriend he hadn't seen for many years appeared, the male protagonist who had no emotional expression suddenly became a little shy. When he heard the ex-boyfriend say that he now has a happy family, his eyes turned red.
In this emotional scene, I can feel the director's emotions, the importance of that person to him and his reluctance... A 70-year-old old man, he has experienced a truly unforgettable love.
Another possibility in past time and space
The past has completely passed, some are nostalgic and longing, some are regrettable but cannot be changed, and Almodóvar now has the opportunity to relive the past and at the same time make some changes. Almodovar is 70 years old, and his mother may have passed away. Why did Almodovar suddenly say sorry to his mother in the movie? I guess, maybe he had some conflicts with his mother in real life, maybe he didn't feel sorry at that time, maybe he didn't have time to apologize... But in the movie, he finally had the opportunity to sit on the balcony and say to his mother: Mom, I'm sorry , I can't be who you think I am. I think that's enough, more than anything else, he created a parallel plane of his own.
This is also the biggest charm of the film for me. It gives me the opportunity to relive the things that are important to me and have the opportunity to change some things.
end
I think it's a very, very good ending. This play-within-a-play setting just happens to show that movies are another of his passions. He put all his love - childhood, mother, lover, movies in this "Pain and Glory", and constructed them in this way.
A 70-year-old man thinks back on his past, and puts all his most important things and most sincere emotions in his works, which is probably just such a film.
another interpretation
I recently saw a short film about memory on Netflix. The short film found through experiments that people's grasp of memory is very inaccurate. Over time, human memory can be very biased, and we "change" our memory according to our preferences.
This is also human nature, remembering what we want to remember, selective forgetting can make us sleep better.
Why does the director at the end treat all his childhood memories as some footage of the movie? Another interpretation is my own interpretation.
There is actually no dramatic conflict in this movie. The characters in the movie are all gentle, there is no bad guy, and there is nothing particularly bad.
I think it may be that Almodóvar had a memory bias when he was 70 years old. His boyfriend could never be such a perfect person, and his mother must have had some disputes with him, including childhood - in such a poor family, living in a hole, was his childhood so beautiful?
Here are my two understandings:
1. It is possible that the director avoided all the bad things. 2. It is also possible that the director has forgotten the bad memories and left behind all these beautiful moments in his life.
I think he's sincere enough to make this kind of film that I don't think there's anything that can't be put in, so I think it's more like the second. The director recalled the past when he was 70 years old, and the life he remembered was so perfect. But he also knows that his real life may not be so perfect, so at the end of the film, he ends the film with a "secondary theatrical space" to distinguish between reality and memory.
There are good and bad in real life, but in the movie, we can make it better, we can show a very gentle world, a world that makes up for all the regretful moments: he quit drugs and bravely fought against the disease , Have a wonderful childhood, reconcile with a former lover, and say goodbye with a gentle apology to my mother.
Another point of view is mentioned in the short film about memory: the most profound impact of memory is the impact on the future.
People with amnesia don't remember what they've done, and the biggest problem for them is that they don't know what they're going to do tomorrow. To those who have no past, they also have no tomorrow.
This comment is narrated by Mr. Zhao Guangda from the Department of Media and Communication
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