The Postmodern Narrative of the Absurd and Sucker

An early but classic work of Almodóvar, the soul of Spanish contemporary films... The complexity of this work is staggering, and the intuitive feeling of the film is absurd and trivial, which also adheres to Almodóvar's consistent postmodern Style, the film uses multiple binary oppositions, the devil mother and the angel mother, but they are integrated. Although the transition is relatively blunt, it is in line with the viewer's psychology. , also constitutes binary opposition... The elements of the movie are very gorgeous, love triangle, incest, childhood bed, drug use, sexual inversion, sex, shooting, suspense, homosexuality, prison, singing and dancing, etc... This almost covers everything. The economic collage makes the film very similar to the Spanish farce... Regarding the postmodernity criticism of this film, Dai Jinhua has a special explanation, which is very detailed. While adhering to Freud, it also tried to subvert psychoanalysis, but the Electra complex occurred in the mother, and the daughter played the male role of the Oedipus complex Oedipus, which became subversive in a sense. , for daughters, males don't matter, they just call the mother's attention, such as the father, the means to contend with the mother, such as the husband, or the tool to replace the mother, such as the shemale judge, which is contrary to Freud's theory Yes, the mother and daughter have become mirror images, and they seem to need to ask each other for their own existence... However, when she told her mother about all the childhood traumas, she was healed, which is in line with the deduction of psychoanalysis... Almodóvar's use of color is very pop, and Chanel, who appears from time to time, is also a symbol of consumerism. The director is indeed a wizard, he is playing with art, and various artistic miscellaneous pieces have become a tool to express his personal views , during the period, popular and niche culture, vulgar and high culture were mixed up and deconstructed each other, and for the director, what he did at the same time was to mix commercial films with literary films. Under his command, it seems that this concept has also become a symptom of postmodernity. ...

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