As a color, red contains too many meanings: warmth, hope, enthusiasm, unrestrainedness, love, murder, horror, scars, charm, women... Almodóvar as the director follows the visual style of previous works and chooses Intense red.
Raymonde is also a woman who can't do without red.
Raymond was riding a red bus, wearing a red sweater and carrying a red leather bag, while her daughter was waiting for her at the station in a red striped T-shirt. She was a little confused. On the way back home, the red car parked on the side of the road, with a large red color with an unknown premonition. It turns out that Raymonde's husband tried to rape his daughter, but was killed by the daughter in resistance, and a large amount of blood smeared from the body of the husband who fell on the kitchen floor. As a strong middle-aged man, it is incredible to be stabbed to death by a 13-year-old girl. When Raymonde faced all of this, I was particularly surprised by her performance. Although she was flustered and even screaming, she was able to deal with all this very calmly and methodically, and she could even have a clear mind. Clean the kitchen knife stained with blood, and clean up the blood in the kitchen in a panic. When the restaurant owner Emilio visited, she could naturally tell a lie and cleverly explained that the blood on her body was a woman's "thing". From the lens, we can see the whole picture of this home. The red sofas, red cabinets, red decorations, red beer cans and even the backs of the photo frames on the wall are red. This family’s female power Obviously stronger than a man, the only husband, the only man, even if he is strong, he is indeed the weaker in this family. This easily explains why the daughter can kill her husband and what the wife shows when dealing with all this status. Of course, there is another reason that Raymond Dai was also sexually assaulted by his father. This is something later.
Raymonde and her daughter dragged the corpse to the restaurant. Raymonde finally put the corpse into the red freezer, which is a symbol of female power. After including, when she digs a hole to bury the freezer, she can see that the burrowing place is just illuminated by the car's red taillights. From the perspective of the scope, it can be determined that there is additional light during shooting. This deliberate setting strengthens the female power. Raimond was raped by her father when she was a girl, so she left her parents and went to Aunt Paula's house to give birth to children alone, with her older children, and after her daughter killed her husband, she buried her herself. Even the helper was dressed as an assistant. Prostitute in red shirt. There has hardly been a positive image of a man by Raymonde's side, which may be the reason for her inner strong female psychology.
When it comes to men, the appearance of two men is very interesting. The first man was Emilio, the owner of the restaurant. When Raymonde opened the door, he appeared in front of the camera, wearing a red shirt. In their conversation, there were two lines of dialogue: "How much does your restaurant sell? I have always liked it." "Unfortunately, you don't like the boss." From the dialogue, you can know that Emilio has a little affection for Raymonde; the other man is the guy in the photography team who arranges food. This person is not wearing red clothes, but is wearing a bright red belt (or belt or something like a belt). Red is the color of charm, especially the charming woman like Raymonde. Both men are attracted by the charm of this woman. Emilio can see from the dialogue, and the guy on the film crew is From the confrontation between the two, although the love between the two men is not obvious enough, it is enough to reflect the feminine charm of Raymonde, and it is also another expression of female power.
There is such a plot in the film that is worth mentioning. Raymonde agreed to the film crew's request for catering arrangements, so she asked her friends what food she could borrow for urgent use. She dragged the car on the road. From the screen, Raymonde was only wearing a black dress, and the leather bag she had on her back was placed in the car. She borrowed a piece of meat from the first prostitute. The prostitute wore a red coat. She borrowed cookies from the second neighbor. In the background of the picture, the prostitute just now appeared, a passerby in a red coat, and a red hand. A passerby with a leather bag and a passerby in red pants. At this time, a long shot was used to show the scene. The scene scheduling was natural. Scheduling like this appeared in many subsequent scenes, and there were always a few people dressed in red on the screen. In this segment, all passers-by are women, and there is no man, which is enough to show the director's detailed arrangements.
An important venue for the entire movie is the restaurant. Take a closer look at this restaurant, red doors and windows, red seats, red decorations, red price lists, red coke boxes, red tableware and so on. From the very beginning, it was implied that this restaurant would surely let this woman succeed. She could be responsible for the meals of 30 people alone, and could manage the restaurant alone. All the red elements showed that this restaurant was enveloped by the power of this woman. There is a very important scene in the restaurant. Raymond sings live. She is wearing a red plaid shirt. The two musicians next to her are wearing red shirts. The background is red window lattices and red decorative paintings attached to the windows. . The song she sang was taught to her by her mother when she was young. When she sang, she remembered her "dead" mother. For her, this was a sentimental but tender moment. Red represents warmth and happiness. In this scene, the red elements almost filled the entire picture, reflecting red lights, making the picture present a warm tone and setting off emotions.
There are also many red elements in Raimond’s sister Sol’s home. From the plot, we learned that Sol and her husband divorced, which had to make me imagine whether, like my mother and sister, she also killed herself s husband? In the second half of the film, Raymond seldom wore red clothes. On the contrary, her mother could always find red. I think her mother is also a representative of female power. She set fire to her husband and mistress who betrayed her. With her own strength, not only did she take care of her sister Paula, she has lived to this day, and she even took care of Augustine, who was so angry. Raymonde is also a daughter after all, so under the mother's power, she has to rely more on her mother. Therefore, she has to tell her mother about her husband. She said she needs her mother and she needs her mother's power.
Finally, I don’t know if you feel that the lips of all the women in the play are particularly conspicuous, sometimes bright red, sometimes dark red, no matter what, sexy red lips are also exclusive to women.
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