All my films represent me, but this time I go further, and in it is my soul.
The famous Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's previous works "Everything About The Mother", "Return", "Broken Embrace", "Julieta" have a strong personal style and authorial attributes, in all the films directed by Almodóvar, his treatment of color can be described as unique, in order to express the protagonist's emotions and desires, which is impressive. His new work "Pain and Glory" is a very autobiographical film, which is about Almodóvar's own memories of life and self-reconciliation. Compared with Other Works directed by Almodóvar, "Pain and Glory" is much gentler.
The film "Pain and Glory" revolves around the theme of "reconciliation", the film mainly tells the story of Spanish director Salvador Marlowe as he grows older, his physical condition declines, and encounters a bottleneck in his career, he begins to look back at the past and remember his past friends and lovers. Salvador has been plagued by illness, and the series of events such as back pain, throat lumps, and the death of his mother have made Salvador suffer with the pain of the flesh, and his mental uneasiness and anxiety have made him worse.
Salvador experienced double physical and psychological suffering and pain, under such double pressure, his strong heart but more and more frustrated, to fight with it, Salvador and many years of no contact with the actor's old friend Alberto reconciliation, and his dislike of the work, and the deceased mother, his own physical and psychological pain reconciliation, poor physical condition he gradually began to look back on his past. As the existence of independent individuals, Salvador in his life, longing for freedom, the pursuit of art, he has a strong sense of self, the director will be his own life trajectory in the pain and glory through this way to present, the other side of glory is always accompanied by pain.
In the film, the intention of "water" is given a new expressive meaning, and the film reflects the psychological activities of the protagonist's consciousness and subconscious. For example, in the family relationship, the intention of "water" represents the two time dimensions of reality and memory, the film involves the pool and the river, and at the beginning of the film, Salvador recalls his mother who washed clothes by the river in his hometown in the pool, and Salvador's inner feelings and emotions change accordingly. Under the director's lens, he adopted a castration method to present the father who was often not at home, so that the father lacked the subjective identity to a certain extent, the father of Salvador in the film had a weak sense of existence, facial and instrumental attributes were stronger, and the director portrayed the image of Salvador's father in this way, shaking the male subject status, resulting in Salvador relying more on his mother in the trajectory of life.
In El Salvador's heart, the mother has always had an independent, resolute, courageous image, she assumed the role of mother and wife at home, and did her best to raise Salvador to grow up, even if she lived in a cave, she also tried to set aside a place for her son to read and write, but the relationship between mother and son showed a trend of developing in the opposite direction, the mother shouldered the burden of life, and the son wanted to pursue the soul of freedom, under the embarrassing environment at that time, Salvador did not fight. Instead, he followed his mother's words and went to church school. The "water" symbolizes calm and clarity in the film, and the director infinitely enlarges his memories through this intention, so that the memories of reality and the past make the director feel pain and anxiety, and use "water" to portray and highlight a certain state of mind of the protagonist, so as to achieve the purpose of deepening the audience's perception of the intention in the film, that is, to use the intention of "water" to present the psychological and physical pain and anxiety of the protagonist in different time and space.
Experiencing both physical and psychological pain and torture, Salvador has not made a movie for a long time, he spends most of his time in a mansion in Madrid, as he grows older, he is deeply troubled by tinnitus, headaches, back pain, depression and other diseases, can only use drugs to alleviate pain, drug use has become the key to El Salvador's escape from reality, in the process of drug use, he loses his rationality, the whole person becomes emotional, he is surrounded by empty beauty and memories.
In the family relationship, Salvador remembered his old friend Alberto, when the two reunited, Alberto introduced the fun of heroin smoking to Salvador, when the two talked about the movie again, the memories were gradually presented, Alberto played the male protagonist of the movie "Addiction", this movie has the same sex issue in Salvador, with a certain degree of privacy, to a certain extent, it also shows the reconciliation of the old friend of the actor who has not been in contact with Salvador for many years.
Pain and Glory is Almodóvar's autobiographical film, in which the director reconciles and redeems himself by highlighting the relationship between family and friendship. Every life node event described by Almodóvar is the source of his emotions in the creative process, and the impact of childhood on a person is profound and lasting, but in the process of growing up, it will be a process of self-redemption.
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