The more perfect the virtual, the more cruel the reality

In "Return", we can't see the male image of male chauvinism in traditional movies, and there is almost no support of male image in the family system described in this film. The tragedy of the women in the story comes from the violence of the two male characters in the image of the father. In the patriarchal culture, a woman is a signifier of another male. The two are combined by a symbolic order. In this order, a man can maintain his fantasy and obsession through the language commands imposed on the silent image of a woman. , But women are still constrained in the position of being the bearer of meaning rather than the maker. In a patriarchal society, women often succumb to the male value judgment standards and are in a subordinate and attacked position. Almost all the female images portrayed by Almodovar's works are oppressed and driven by men to varying degrees.
"Return" is about an individual phenomenon, which only exists in La Mancha, where the story takes place, where men are not expected to be expected, and women bear everything. Because of Almodovar's adoration and preference for women, he reconstructed the gender roles of men and women, which gave birth to a story that highly praises women. Regardless of whether this phenomenon is widespread or not, whether the reality is as shown in Almodovar’s movies, and how he exaggerated these things in his works, what can be vaguely smelled is that Almodovar is competing with reality. His challenge to authority and secular standards can be described as one end. If the purpose of social standards is to conceal and conceal, then Almodovar is frankly exposing and shaking, aiming to condemn and ridicule the phenomena that we ignore and are obscured by social norms. Those are not necessarily It is a real existence.

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