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It is said that Almodóvar had the creative impression of "Say It to Her" after watching Pina's "Muller Café Müller". Inheriting Amo's usual pop art, he expresses the pain, helplessness, struggle, and collision between men and women in Pina's famous dance theater work "Mill Cafe" in "Say It to Her" in a gentle, feminine, caring, and communicative way.
Can you change the way, will it produce love?
The answer is pessimistic.
The woman in "Mueller's Cafe" and Benniro in "Say It to Her" both seem to be playing a one-man show. Because there is nothing, I have to invent something, but love never gets a response.
We love, but don't get a response. This despair prompts the protagonists to carry out other forms of projection, such as the career choice of the bullfighter and the choice of Mark; Mark's tears after being moved by dance and song; Benelux taking care of his mother who can't go out, learning Alicia to watch dance, watching silent films, and then telling her unconscious...
In fact, it is not easy to interact with the people you love. It is so difficult that it is better to fight bulls, and it is better to seek empathy and solace from art and travel.
In Almodóvar's female works, women are generally gushing and flocking, while in "Say It to Her", women are aphasian, silent, independent, but men are emotionally delicate. So, the inability to communicate between men and women is due to inertia – the so-called neuroticism, chattering, and unreasonable teasing of women, as shown in "The Mueller Cafe", is obviously questionable. Because if the man keeps talking, the other party can't understand and ignore it, and can't respond.
Benniro took care of his mother for many years, and after her mother's death, she lived without sustenance, and when she found Alicia in the dance classroom opposite from the window sill, she fell in love and could not let go for a long time. So he followed Alicia and met her in the name of picking up a wallet, and then found out that her father was a psychiatrist, so he went to her house under the pretext of seeing a doctor, sneaked to her room and stole a hairpin. But in the next few days, he found that Alicia had not gone to dance class, inquired about Alicia's car accident and was hospitalized unconscious, and the doctor could not be sure when he would wake up. Benniro's years of experience in caring for his mother led him to enter the hospital as a caregiver for Alicia, and for 4 years he washed and massaged Alicia every day to wipe his body and talk to her every day. Finally, one day, the hospital found out that Alicia was pregnant, and Benirus was sentenced to rape and imprisoned.
Parallel to the story of Benirus and Alicia is the story of the Bulldog and the journalist Mark. They met through an interview, when the bullfighter had just ended a relationship and was very painful. Mark may have walked with her out of curiosity, concern, and attraction. But neither has gotten rid of their respective previous relationships. After a conversation in which Mark confessed that he might still be in love with his ex-girlfriend, the bullfighter was injured on the field and was equally unconscious. But Mark couldn't speak to an unresponsive vegetative person like Bennyrou.
Mark travels again, learning from the newspaper that the Bulldog woman has died on the way, and returns to the hospital guilty and painfully to find Benniru in prison, so he visits Benneroo and gives him his travel diary. Later, when he heard that Alicia had given birth to a dead baby, Benelux felt that he had really done something wrong and committed suicide in prison. Mark returns to Benniro's house with his mother when he was alive and finds Alicia across the street...
The film ends with Pina's other work, Enthusiastic Mazurkah, in which Mark and Alicia look at each other and laugh. Dancers in floral dresses on stage played with each other, mischievously unleashing the passion of life. The two souls in the audience meet again...
Love has nothing to do with simple language or physical touch, it is telepathy in the moment after looking at each other, and it is the mutual sharing and enjoyment of beautiful things.
In the "Love in the Trilogy" ("Love Before dawn breaks", "Love at sunset and dusk", "Love before midnight"), the male and female protagonists can chat all the way because of the connection of a certain part of the heart, and they can unreservedly share their own experiences and thoughts and feelings to another person, which is a kind of courage on the one hand, and on the other hand, because of the understanding and response of similar feelings. The pit bulldog and Benelux in "Say It to Her" are deplorable, and who can understand their affection and pity? The nurse who nursed Alicia with Benniro? Or is it an ex-boyfriend who is also a matador?
May love respond, and may affection finally get rid of attachment.
Additional words:
Pina Bausch's "Muller Cafe" was inspired by the café opened by her father when she was a child, and Pina watched many stories of sadness and joy, which became the prototype of the sad entanglement of men and women in the dance.
A dancer in pajamas rampages between tables and chairs, and a man removes the tables and chairs from the side, as if to protect her from collisions. Men and women or constantly mechanically repeat the action of hugging and kissing, the man picks up the woman again and again, the woman falls to the ground again and again, or the woman is lifted by the man again and again or actively or passively on the wall, Pina alone in the rear at the same time, wanting to rest, slow and sad.
Men and women in the dance, how intense the contact, how deep the loneliness. The woman seems to be constantly seeking comfort, understanding and response, but the man only seems to be overwhelmed, he hugs and lets go, runs forward and hesitates. Pina is like a woman's heart, wandering lifelessly.
Is there really a soul exchange between men and women? Do Beauvoir and Sartre count? Is Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, Yang Dai and Qian Zhongshu have a more complete love? Non-parties have no way of knowing and no way of judging. But from the end of "Say It to Her", the appearance of Pina's other work, "Enthusiastic Mazurka", may reveal the possibility of telling the possibility from another angle.
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