The first shot in "Return" is a group of women sweeping the grave. There are no men among the tomb sweepers. This is a completely women's world. Moreover, the people here reserved a cemetery for themselves before they died, and they treated death with such ease and calmness.
Next, the heroine Remanda's idle and lascivious husband was stabbed to death by her daughter when she was sexually assaulting their daughter. Remanda quickly acted upon learning of this, dried the blood, and froze the body in the freezer. , and in a dark night, he asked the help of a neighbor woman to bury the heavy freezer by the river. Remanda does it so neatly that she says it through the closing paragraph with her mother. It turned out that Remanda was raped by her father when she was young, and gave birth to her daughter/sister. Remanda's mother found out and set fire to her father. More than ten years later, the same fate came back to his daughter/sister.
One movie, six women. Although there are murders, incest, abandoned corpses, and ghosts in the film, the tone of the whole film is very warm, and several strong women have won people's sympathy and favor. At the same time, it does not exaggerate hatred, but more shows the self-help of women, as well as the care and warmth between women. Men are redundant here.
The return is more about the forgiveness of the daughter and the return of maternal love. This theme is expressed through the mouth of Remanda's mother: her return is to seek forgiveness from her daughter and make up for her original mistakes.
The film feels warmer, like the Spanish landscapes that are happening in front of you. Feel the unique style of Spain and the charm of Penelope Cruz.
I also found an interesting phenomenon. When Spanish women kiss each other, they want to make noises, just like the sounds of birds pecking bugs, haha.
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