Panic

Roselyn 2021-12-28 08:02:09

For "Pain and Glory", it takes a certain period of time and experience to perceive, and I am just an adult bystander, but this does not affect my perception and experience, but is immersed in this gentle confession. In the second viewing of the film, I also used my clumsy insights to analyze it seriously. If there is any impropriety, please specify.


Self-fiction

The so-called pure present is a process that swallows the future, the past, and is difficult to grasp. According to the truth, all consciousness has become a memory.
-Henry Bergson, "Matter and Memory"

There are two main lines in the film, namely childhood and present. Time and space allow Almodovar to re-examine the past and to record and recall the current process. Although the plot in the movie is similar to the director's life track, as the director said, it is made up of 20% of the real portrayal and 80% of fiction, that is, self-fiction. (In the film, the mother said she hated El Salvador’s self-fiction) is an autobiographical fictional work. It is exactly the same as the performance of the director's play-in-play, which uses fictional means to recognize and express oneself. Restraining emotions (such as Salva’s evaluation of performance in the film: avoid emotional venting, restrain emotions) The ratio of real to fiction, perhaps to avoid subjectivity, or perhaps the director is not yet ready to carry on with himself Complete peeling. Even if presented in this way, we can also experience the sincerity conveyed from the lens.


The world of representation

There is a section of self-analysis in the film, explaining self-understanding, external cognition, physical pain, and "abstract punishment". Almodovar's film quotes Freud's philosophy and the two are closely related, and Schopenhauer's understanding of pain is very consistent with this self-perception in the film. Thousands of forms of pain will alternate with age and situation, such as illness, fear, anxiety, libido, emptiness, and so on. Any life is tossed between pain and emptiness. These inevitabilities (increasing inevitability of age, inevitability of death) are inevitable, and pain is the essence of life in self-examination. In the first scene of the movie, El Salvador opens his arms in an empty swimming pool, immersed in the water.

(Salvador- Antonio Banderas. I think Almodóvar has repeatedly chosen Banderas, from the original "Labyrinth of Passion" to "Law of Desire", "Bound Me, Tie Me" and "The Skin of My Habitat". .. With Truffaut choosing Jean-Pierre Leold, Cai Mingliang chose Li Kangsheng, because the director wanted to present the record of time, the actor's career and changes. Just like the essence of a movie)

From the first act, the state of anxiety and pain is relaxed underwater, and childhood memories begin to intersperse. And these memories, moments of great significance, temporarily pushed him from suffering into happiness and inner peace. These purely contemplative states are elevated beyond the level of will, desire, and pressure to be relieved. Water presents beautiful images in this film. Women wash their clothes in the stream and sing loudly. Eduardo’s initial desire to cleanse his body arises. The movie scenes watched with Alberto are in harmony with "Addiction". In film memories about water in ", these symbols constitute a picture of life. Life continues even in the bottom of the water, and the transformation of liquid is also a beautiful filtration in memory. Time can filter pain and reconcile conflicts. As Suleima said to Salvador at the beginning: "It’s your eyes that have changed, my dear, the movie is still that movie." In his twilight years, Saval lacked a state of struggle and succumbed to anxiety and despair. He was in 32 years. After reconciling with Alberto, reconciling with self-contradictions, examining the self in the nature of pain, and redeeming the soul in the process of aging.


addiction

"Addiction" is a private record of Saval in the movie, and it was finally adapted into a play by Alberto. The poster of "Addiction" is a bright red heart surrounded by a wreath, filled with needles, and burning fireworks spewed out from above. . Even if the heart of the needle is inserted, the vitality is as strong as a flame, just like Salva’s love for Federico’s skin: "I thought my love for him can overcome his addiction, but that’s not the case. Love still Not enough, love may be overwhelming, but not enough to save the one you love. "Salva's later years became increasingly dependent on drugs, but after meeting Marcelo, he decided to re-treat. After breaking the story with Marcelo, he was also surrendered. With the determination of despair and anxiety, it was movies that saved him in search of meaning in life . The use of Almodovar's colors is bold and not abused. Compared with earlier works, in this drama, a single high-saturation color is used as the background, extremely pure red, without impurities, like the endless spread of emotions. , Deep and helpless.


Wood egg

Female characters in Almodovar films usually praise dedication, and this film is no exception. The praise of maternal love also deepens the guilt, "I just let you down by being myself, I'm sorry." I have to say that Almodovar's careful observation of ethical emotions is more embodied than Fellini It is in the dialogue, the emotional collision between the dialogues is properly grasped, it is not too sensational, but can also impress the audience. The wooden egg is the least valuable in front of the rosary, and it is also the longest-lasting item with the mother. Salva voluntarily asks to stay, also hoping to continue the deepest relationship with his mother. One detail is that when the family lived in the cave, the young Salva held his mother and raised his head and said that he could see the sky. Before the treatment in the latter segment, he raised his head and looked at the sky full of wallpapers to echo, suggesting that he will slowly walk out of his mother's death. Influence.


Some elements

The protagonist’s name, Salvador Mallo, contains every letter of Almodóvar

TORBORG NEDREAUS

A novel about women is also Almodovar's most recent book

"Eight and a half"

The appearance of the poster

Fernando Pessoa "The Record of Panic"

Essays of some life fragments

Alberto Iglesias

Almodovar's Queen's Musician

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Extended Reading

Pain and Glory quotes

  • Salvador Mallo: The nights that coincide several pains, those nights I believe in God and I pray to him. The days when I only suffer a type of pain I'm an atheist.

  • Salvador Mallo: Alberto, gossip ages, like people.