If you want to relive Almodovar's Spanish charm in "Broken Embrace", then most fans will be disappointed. With the exception of Cruz at the end of the film recreating the opening sequence from "Woman on the Brink," it's hard to find the style of Almodóvar's heyday—except for the still-solid art and music.
Perhaps Almodóvar tried his best to restore the pain of his emotional experience in the past (it can be clearly perceived from copying the most satisfactory works), the film revolves around retrospection - the old and blind director's retrospect of his prime years, and a period of The retrospect of the sudden but shattering love affair, but when the story unfolds, the rich style that should linger in Almodovar’s films is replaced by a film noir feeling that can’t be compared to a dog (on the contrary). A work "Floating Flower" has this kind of mysterious texture.) However, as a film noir, "Broken Embrace" itself is hard to find the postmodern pop style art technique that the director is good at, and the suspense of the setting is also difficult to find. Not enough to support the skeleton of the story.
The story told in the film is not trivial, it can be considered relaxed, but it is not enough to turn a thousand times - the story revolves around the makeover of a blind screenwriter (a former theater director) after a car accident. The background of the car accident, the mastermind behind the scenes, the identity of the victims and the social relations of these groups are clearly explained, and the director is sent to the second spring of creation. It's a necessary element of a typical Almodovar film, but it's by no means sufficient, and while it has decent art, it lacks the trademark garishness and high saturation (of course, it's not a flaw), although still There is envy, jealousy, and hatred, but these emotions seem to be passed on to the man (of course, this is not wrong) - but the overall feeling is that this is not so pure an Almodóvar movie.
This is a story about identity: the multiple identities of the heroine Lena—the daughter of a seriously ill father, the mistress of a major producer, the heroine of "Girls and Suitcases", the director's lover, and her life is facing a The farewell of one identity and the acceptance of another identity completed a four-part illusion, and finally died in a car accident. All the emotions in the world have been experienced unforgettable, and it seems that they live for love and die properly. The identity of the male protagonist takes the car accident as a turning point, and has experienced the two identities of Matthew and Harry. The conversion of these two identities is forced, and it is helpless to firmly control the control given by others - so, Amo Dowa once again completed his persistent exploration and praise of the true meaning of feminism.
Among the men portrayed by Almodovar, directing or screenwriting is not a new profession, and actors and producers are also common for Almodovar women. According to Almodovar’s own explanation of the film, “This is my "Love Letter to the Movie" It seems that the film is a battlefield of love and hate, and the appearance of being used makes the so-called "love letter" a manifestation of the film director's own bad taste. Love is not as good as "Bind Me, Bind". "I" was strongly sung, and the male protagonist also retired from the front-line film creator to become a screenwriter after love despair: So, to sum up, it can be said that "Broken Embrace" just used the guise of the movie to susten Amo The by-product of Dowa's personal experience, except for a bright color at the end of the film, can't taste the purity and romance of the love letter - those euros that have been spent a lot should only be used for some strange props and graceful scenery. .
I secretly thought that Almodovar should be better at portraying a kind of fringe neurotic people, or paranoid people, no matter the beauty or ugliness (most of them are peculiar in appearance and have a kind of personality beauty), such characters and stories can be in his collage. The melodrama-like elements play just the right role, like the persistent doctor in "Tell Her", or the impure brother Iglecio in "Bad Education", they are all in the strong Almodovar style. The film plays a marginal person, but all the characters in "Broken Embrace" are too mainstream to appear bland, but if you don't count the slightly complicated story, the film itself is just a second-rate director's superior work ( Superior simply because technically impeccable).
If this is Almodovar's first film, maybe people will still be shocked that a film genius is born, but unfortunately we have to add a "7" after the "1" to make him "17" , then people should think, it would be great if this was the first part, like when Matthew met Lena for the first time, the kind of love that shines in the eyes is clean and pure and flawless aside from social relations. It is Almodovar's version of life, if it is just as first seen, it is a pity that in the double space of reality and illusion, there will be no day to achieve it.
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