Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Talk to her

This is a Spanish film which directed by Pedro Almodovar. According to the source "the film won the 2002 Academy Award for Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film".
This film is about two man who never met before, and they were getting know each other in a concert. They are young male nursing, Benigno, who acted by Javier Camara and a writer, Marco, who acted by Dario Grandinetti. Filled with wooden tables and chairs on the stage, two women closed their eyes, open arms, dance to Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen". Marco can not stop sobbing because of the scene is touching. A few months later, they met again in El Bosque which is private clinic. Marco's girlfriend Lydia is a professional bullfighter, she was injury, and in a coma. By this time, Benigno is taking care of a young ballet student, Alicia, who is in coma. Benigno fall in love with Alicia, and he raped her. Unfortunately, Alicia got pregant, and Benigno arrested by police. Few mounth later, because of  Benigno could not see and take care of Alicia, he committed suicide. At the end of the movie, Alicia woke up and met Marco in a concert. It seemed that there would be a couple.
"Talk to her" was the major theme in the movie. Lydia and Alicia became vegetative patients in different reasons. Benigno was a experienced carer, and he kept talking to Alicia, although  Alicia couldn't repond to him. From these talks, we could see obviously that Benigno loved Alicia deeply. For the other couple, Marco was unable to adapt to his girlfriend being a vegetative patient. At begining, he didn't know how to look after her, then he began taking care of Lydia as what Benigno to do for Alicia till Lydia's ex-boyfriend came back to break them up. There is a warm scene that Benigno and Marco took the two women out to enjoy the sun which moved me to tears . Although Alicia and Lydia were vegetative patients, the two men still believed they maybe heard what they said. I think this is the power of love.
I like the song "Cucurrucu Palom" which is sang by Caetano Veloso in the movie. I am deeply touched because of beautiful melody and singer's soulful singing. This song is sorrow and heartleft. As the sad love in movie, Marco loved Lydia deeply, Benigno loved Alicia deeply, however, they did not become couples in the end because of many sakes. In addition, the silent film inside film is bold and unique which also impressed me. The director implied that Benigno raped Alicia by the indirect skill, which shocked audience.  
   


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