The image of being slipped by the tongue

Lexie 2021-11-28 08:01:19


Recalling this film, the most interesting moment was the moment when the "tiger" licked the monitor. He, a beast's tongue, covered the imprisoned little man in the room.
His flesh enters the interface—the camera once

looked down on the level and order planned by the camera provides the old maid with a surveillance angle,
while the head-up camera defines the angle of peeking and appreciation.
This angle is private, facing the sofa, and All kinds of classical and modern paintings hanging on the wall are similar.

Robert, who returns home every day, turns on the monitor just like turning on the TV-a beautiful picture frame, showing live images: the beauty is reading, press the button, Robert can focus on the skin or expression.
Vera is the thing to be seen-a creation, connected with the past youthful body and past memories, and she is not easily damaged, representing an immortal scientific body. Robert is complacent about this.

Vera tempts Robert. Robert goes to "another room", but
he is still very cautious. He always reminds himself that the soul "under the surface" is the
key turning point from the "Tiger" who broke into the
unsuspecting old man-Tiger (His cosplay carnival costume is more meaningful) They broke the calm interface maintained by the camera and
their sex behavior completely transformed Vera from "the thing to be seen" to "the thing to be used"-yesterday's body is on the new body Resurrected! The flesh that has been used is no longer a "skin", but has realized the transformation of the skin.

Because of this transformation, Robert changed from controlling Vera to respecting her.
Robert got into the camera at the
same time, Vera jumped out of the camera because of seeing the old photos.
In other words, when Robert abandoned the camera
and became a human being (giving up tools and wandering in tender memories), he immediately became fragile and completely vulnerable.

Vera found her mother and changed from "things" to "people" again.
The audience’s sense of fear and Almodóvar’s thinking are all focused on: whether it is “being seen” or “used”, the “materialization” of human beings is the tragedy of modern instrumental rationality.

The tongue means the temperature of the physical body, and the image means that the person being materialized, whether it is transformed or filmed, the tongue consumes a layer of skin, which is simply an illusion of the world.

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Extended Reading
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    Adios la jouissance chromatique et bonjour la froideur austère.

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The Skin I Live In quotes

  • [last lines]

    Madre de Vicente: Why are you crying?

    Vera Cruz: I'm Vicente.

  • Marilia: The things the love of a mad man can do.