The film’s prime focuses are a series of unusual relationships: Marco and Beningo, Beningo and Alicia, and Marco and Lydia. The most endearing relationship is that of Marco and Beningo, who share a very close bond due to their distressing situations. Marco’s girlfriend is in a coma, and it turns out she had been cheating on him, while Beningo has been fawning over Alicia months before her accident, leading to four years of him taking care of her. The most questionable twist within the film is Alicia’s pregnancy. Almodovar enjoys torturing the audience and leaving important questions unanswered, or just giving out ambiguous answers, and the biggest question is: Who raped Alicia? The reasonable answer would be Beningo, a man who grew to love her more than anyone else in the world, and had an Oedipal complex for his mother up until her death. He is innocent in his mannerisms, although his obsession makes him slightly dangerous. He spent every waking moment with Alicia, massaging her naked body, and touching her when she had her period. The scene that makes me believe it was Beningo who raped Alicia is the silent film scene. Beningo watches Shrinking Lover, a bizarre silent film about a man who shrinks and enters his lover’s vagina at the end of the film to be with her forever, and tells Alicia about the film. Chances are, Beningo felt the movie speak to him about how far one is willing to go for love, and the night he shares with Alicia the shrinking man’s sacrifice for love, he may have penetrated her as well. In Shrinking Lover, the man is as tall as the vagina, and it is seen as a door. He strips himself of his clothing and enters the vagina, the most vulnerable place of a woman, whilst nude, which is also a vulnerable stance. Because of Beningo’s innocence, his actions towards Alicia were harmless. He truly loved her, and up until the rape (which is not set in stone) was completely fine. Overall, I truly liked the film. It points out questions we refuse to ask ourselves, how well do we know ourselves? How well do we know others? In Beningo’s case, he was in absolute denial that was he was doing was wrong, or odd. What justifies our actions? Almodovar asks every question, and it’s up to us to answer.
Every once in awhile, a film comes along that truly communicates the power of love. To me, "Talk to Her" is not one of those films. I will admit, it is shot in a professional and skilled manner. However, the plot of the film is just absolutely terrible. To begin with, none of the characters are likable. Marco cries at everything. He cries at a strange ballet. He cries when he has to kill a snake. He cries at some Spanish song. But he doesn't cry when his girlfriend, Lydia, is gored by a bull and dies in a coma. Go figure. Beningo is caring and kind, but it turns out he's actually a mentally disabled stalker who somehow managed to gain a job as a nurse at an esteemed private clinic. Go figure. And while Beningo may love and care for Alicia, his patient, I don't believe true love (especially mentally disabled true love) quite justifies having sex with a comatose young woman. Ultimately, that's what this film comes down to: condoning the rape of a woman in a coma. Let's just say Beningo had been Alicia's boyfriend/husband prior to the coma, and let's just say he was fully in control of his mental faculties: that's still pretty messed up. While I thought the movie would be about Beningo and Marco bonding over the care of the two women they love, it quickly deviates from this plot and then ambles randomly before reaching its climax. Lydia, the only character I liked and was intrigued by, doesn't even last that long in the plot; it seems her real role in the film was just to get Marco to the hospital to meet Beningo. And of course, who could forget the silent film cut of a small man entering a giant vagina. Even if you step back and ignore the absolute crude nature of this part, it is still completely unnecessary and absurd. Does the audience really need that metaphor so overtly demonstrated and plastered all over the screen in such a foolish manner? It destroys the poignancy of the Beningo's feelings for Alicia. But ultimately, I guess this film won awards and is considered "art" because it follows the rules laid down by "The Five Obstructions". Foreign language? Check. Makes no sense? Check. Overtly sexual? Definitely check. Despite all of my complaining, I will admit the bull fighting scenes at the start of the movie were filmed incredibly beautifully. They captured the tension and drama of the sport spectacularly. I found out later they killed six bulls filming this movie and PETA got pretty upset about it. So I guess Pedro Almodóvar couldn't even get that right.
Talk to Her is a very touching film. I felt a bond with the characters and found myself quickly getting lost in the movie. Benigno and Marco are introduced in the beginning, when they are both watching a ballet performance together. Benigno has been going to the ballet, and to silent films because of Alicia, his patient and love. The audience is able to relate to Benigno on this aspect since most people who have ever been in a relationship have done something their significant other likes to do. He states later during the film that going and doing the things Alicia liked to do has made him really live for the past four years. This concept really hit home for me since people I’ve dated have introduced me to new things as well. It is really living to do new things that you wouldn’t normally do on your own. Benigno’s first and second encounters with her are a bit weird to say the least. When he’s in jail, he tells Marco, “I’ve been diagnosed as a psychopath.” According to the DSM-IV, of mental disorders, a psychopath is someone “who persistently disregards and violates others’ rights, they exhibit compulsive lying, they’re reckless, impulsive and promiscuous.” I think he does fit the diagnosis. He rapes a woman in a vegetative coma which is basically like having sex with a corpse. Not only that, but he insists he wants to marry her because they get along better than most married couples. Hello dude, this girl is unconscious! She is totally unaware of anything he is doing or has done! You can’t just marry someone because you want to, this isn’t the stone ages. If you like someone, you have to go through the proper procedures instead of just knocking them on the head and dragging them back to your cave. It is a complete violation of rights when someone is unable to give consent, whether it’s sex, marriage, divorce, anything. Even if Benigno hadn’t killed himself, I don’t think he should have been allowed out of jail. He stole Alicia’s hairclip from her room while he was seeing her father at work. He had an unhealthy obsession with her. Before her, he probably had an unhealthy obsession with his “ailing” mother. However, I think everyone has been in love with someone or at least had a crush on someone they would never be able to have. I think everyone has obsessed over that certain someone, hopefully not to the extent of Benigno. I think the relationship between Marco and Lydia is interesting as well. It’s certainly not as perverse as the one between Alicia and Benigno, but it’s still not a positive, healthy relationship. Marco is still battling demons from his past relationship, which helps to drive Lydia back to El Niño. I think Marco should’ve left her once he found out her cerebral cortex was destroyed. She essentially committed suicide when she sat down in the bull ring. If she had truly loved Marco, she wouldn’t have done that. When someone’s cerebral cortex gets destroyed, if he or she wakes up from a coma, there’s no hope. The personality will be destroyed as well as memory and almost everything that makes a person human. The movie really hit home for me being a Nursing major and having had friends who have been in comas. I definitely commend both men for staying to take care of the women they love, even though there was little to no hope for either woman.
While watching this film I found it interesting how Almodovar strung together the relationship of Marco and Benigno at the beginning and then followed the love life of their two lovers Lydia and Alicia who both end up comatose. At the beginning of the film, I also found it interesting that a modern dance performance was going on and Marco and Benigno were both seen in the middle of it while watching in the audience. I got the sense that Almodovar was very into the concept of human motion and dancing with emotions throughout the entire film. I also noticed that Lydia and Alicia were involved with hobbies that focused so much on their bodies. The idea that ballet and bull fighting, though very different, are both associated with “fine arts” as they are not really considered sports seemed captivating to me. I also thought his use of flashbacks were very efficient in the film which kept me thinking a lot. Not only the flashbacks but the titles that would pop up on the screen in Spanish that would list the characters speaking in each scene seemed odd. This especially had me thinking when puzzling together the rape of Alicia giving it that kind of “whodunit” aspect. Even though Benigno is the first person everyone points their finger at to blame for the rape, the question is still up in the air. It seemed fitting though as Benigno was always the one around Alicia but just seemed unexpected because we are convinced that Benigno is such a nice character. However it wasn’t until after the film that I began to question if it really was him who did it. The storyline also reminded me of a strange Romeo and Juliet in the sense that the two unrequited lovers were following mostly the story of Benigno and Alicia after Marco finds out that Lydia had cheated on him a month before. Once Benigno decides that he wants “to be with Alicia” and resorts to killing himself with an overdose, (just as Romeo does when he realizes he can’t live without Juliet) Alicia miraculously wakes up from her coma which gave me goosebumps. Nonetheless, this film was full of surprises and I liked going into it without having known anything about it beforehand.
“Talk to Her” is mainly taking about how to “ talking” between people, which means communications between main characters. Two female characters and male characters direct the film’s theme. Those two female characters are all in comas and two men have been friends due to their similar situations. Macro and Benigno are all taking care of their lover in hospital, but the manners they use to communicate are totally different. Benigno is a very considerate man who is taking very good care of Alicia. He believes that Alicia has feeling about what he is talking about, so he will go to movie and tell Alicia the film’s story. In contrast, Macro doesn’t think that Lydia will have feeling or known what he has been doing for her. Benihno always cleans Alicia’s body and makes her as pretty as before. He loves her and just wants to be with her, that’s the reason way he becomes a nurse. I especially love the ending of this film, because the ending is connecting with the opening. All of them are showing us the beautiful dancing. There is a last scene, Macro slowly looks back, and he is looking at Alicia’s smiling face. Actually, I think that Macro is admiring Benigno’s effort, because he is seeing Benigno’s lover --Alicia has been a normal woman that is healthy and pretty. He finally knows that Benigno is right, vegetative can hear and feel. Macro regrets that he has not told Benigno about Alicia’s good news. Although Benigno is dead, (he is in jail, because he rapes Alicia in hospital) when we see Alicia’s smiling face, we will also see Benigno’s selfless dedication. Love is selfless, but, sometime, it is never fair.
"Talk to Her," a film about love, is also a story about loneness and communication. The main theme of the film is to"Talk". The actors are outstanding, illuminating two males and two females with different views on loneliness. From the beginning of the film, Almodóvar presents the audience Enduring’s loneness. Macro and Benigno set together watching the ballet. They are touched by the film with tears. They even become good friends in the rest of the film. Benigno has an introverted personality, geniality, no good social skills with few friends, but he is very eager to love someone. After he sees Alicia after him mother's house window, he cannot stop missing her. He even becomes a personal nurse after Alicia in a coma due to a car accident. He talks to her, moves slowly and gently; his honeyed voice is part of physicality, going along with his meticulous and deliberate movement. In contrast, Macro also has a girlfriend, Lydia, a bullfighter. An accident on the bullring made her in a coma. Macro does not talk to Lydia. He does not even want to touch Lydia's body. However, the real communication does not need Talk, but from the heart of love. Alicia wakes up due to Benigno's love, but Alicia knows nothing about Benigno. Love is ultimately alone because we cannot always find prefect time for prefect man or woman. In Talk to Her, I have seen there is a black and white silent film inside, Shrinking Man. In this seven minute love story without language, a little man finally gets into the girl's body, dovoting his life to her. This is my favorite part. Lastly, Alicia wakes up and meets Macro in a theatre. Love is like a religion, but madly Talk to Her’s every minute is paranoid, which is more like a religious ritual of sweet. When we see Alicia's and Macro's smiling faces, there is new possible explosion imaging between Alicia and Macro.
I can’t decide whether I liked the movie or not. I liked the narrative, as it was unique and innovative. However, the movie was pretty slow, and the camera angles and shot sizes lacked variation. Somehow I was bored and excited at the same time. This is sad, because, as I said before, the narrative is brilliant. The love story about two men towards a girl lying in a coma is a complicated situation. Benigno fell deeply in love with Alicia, whom he stalked before she had an accident and fell into a coma. Ironically, he ended up as her nurse who takes care of her all the time. I felt uncomfortable when he was massaging her naked legs or cleaning her vagina as I knew his obsession with her. I had the strange feeling that something would happen. However, on the other side is Marco, who lost his girlfriend who was lying in a coma and who cheated on him just before. This is a strong contrast to Benigno’s love story; but, it’s sad, too, as Marco tried to get comfortable with the difficult hospital situation. I liked that both men were different characters and that Marco, the logical and realistic person, could be described as the antagonist from Benigno, who is living in his fantasies and believes in wonders. I wondered why the friendship ended up this close as Marco is quite different from Benigno. This was unexpected, as well as the sudden rape of Alicia. One does not get to know if Benigno raped her but if so, it does not fit the image of him. It was a surprise for me as he seemed like to be crazy stalker; but, he could never hurt Alicia. Although, maybe he thought she is OK with it, it does not make any sense why he waited to have sex with her so long. The short, silent movie he talked about to Alicia once, had a sexual theme (the man stays in the vagina of his beloved fiancé forever). However, I would never interpret it in the sexual way. Only literally, that he will stay with her forever, or he will die as he did in the end. I think the rape situation should create suspense to produce more variation which was lacked by the camera work and presentation. However, as it did not make any sense for me, no suspense and variation were created and, therefore, the movie was too long and bored me in the end. That is a shame as I liked the narration so much!
"Talk to Her" by Pedro Almodovar is about the relationship that two men, Marco and Benigno, have towards two comatose women, Lydia and Alicia. It is a very interesting movie because the two men become desperately in love with these women despite having not been in a serious relationship with them before they were unconscious. Somehow through taking care of these two people both Marco and Benigno become infatuated with them and create impossible fantasies about them in their heads. These fantasies end up destroying these two men, as Benigno is accused of raping Alicia and Marco exiles himself and then hears that Lydia never came out her coma and has died. There are several hints throughout the movie that this will happen, including the bizarre short film about the Shrinking Man which represents Benigno's sexual desire towards Alicia. The fact that Marco brings Lydia outside and dresses her up as if she is a conscious person shows that he has become a little delusional about her, even though he always tries to appear rational. Marco is an interesting character in that he always tries to appear rational while crying at the strangest times. Almodovar seems to be trying to reverse the male/female stereotype with the character of Marco, as he acts more effeminate and Lydia, his "girlfriend" definitely acts more stereotypically masculine while she is conscious in this film. Overall, while this was not my favorite film it was a unique take on relationships and asks the moral question of where the line is between caring about someone and actually trying to take advantage of that person really is.
Almodovar's "Talk to Her" is a story of intertwined, unconventional relationships. Marco and Benigno bond over the difficulty of having their significant other in a comatose state. Marco's girlfriend, Lydia, was involved in a bull fighting accident resulting in a severe brain injury and coma. He spends as much time as possible in the hospital with her, and soon meets Benigno, a male nurse who is obsessively in love with his patient, Alicia. They share their stories with one another and their feelings for their unconscious significant other. Unlike Marco, Benigno never had an actual relationship with his love interest, and begins to fantasize about it. He soon convinces himself that Alicia has developed feelings for him as well, even though she is unconscious. He confides in Marco and tells him his plans of marrying Alicia. Instead of being disturbed and ending their friendship, he immediately becomes protective and warns him to tell no one else of these feelings and explains that Alicia cannot give consent for the marriage. Benigno keeps this plan a secret, but after sharing these feelings with Marco, his love becomes unbearable. Later, Marco discovers that before her coma, Lydia had plans of rekindling her relationship with her ex husband and decides to take time away from the hospital to focus on his writing. After several months of being away, he learns that Lydia had passed away. Marco immediately calls the hospital to talk to Benigno, however is shocked and upset to hear that Benigno has been arrested for raping and impregnating Alicia. He immediately travels home to Spain, visits Benigno, finds him a better lawyer, and moves into his apartment all in order to support him. Benigno tells Marco that he has fantasies of traveling with him and all he wants is to simply hug Marco. Marco responds by pressing his hand against the glass barrier, and Benigno does the same. Though Benigno begs for updates, Marco is told not to inform him that as a result of the pregnancy, Alicia has woken from her coma but the fetus was born dead. One morning, Marco receives a voicemail from Benigno saying that he’s escaped. After rushing to the jail, Marco learns that he’d taken a massive amount of pills in attempt to enter a coma so Marco will take care of him just as he had taken care of Alicia. However, the pills ended up killing Benigno, and Marco is left heartbroken. Though "Talk to Her" is definitely not my favorite Almodovar movie, I was particularly moved by the very unconventional relationships and the shocking, unpredictable events. Benigno's love for Alicia brought out very uncomfortable, yet empathetic emotions in me: though some of his actions (stalking, watching, raping) nearly made me sick, I couldn't help but feel for him. Benigno obviously had some serious emotional and social issues which made it impossible for him to understand that Alicia had not developed feelings for him during her coma. I applaud Almodovar for taking a risk with such an experimental story line and for bringing out unexplainable emotions to his audience.
The film Talk to Her was extremely disturbing. Early on in the film, Benigno came off as an innocent caretaker who deeply cared about the well-being of his patient. However it soon became apparent that he was much to intimate with her. The patient’s father even asked him what his sexual orientation was. As the film progressed, I was even more disturbed to learn that Benigno had been obsessed with Alicia since before she was ever even a patient. He would watch her dance and began to stalk her. Not long after he finally spoke to her, she got in the car accident that put her in a coma, which makes me wonder whether or not Benigno had something to do with her accident. Clearly Benigno was delusional. I think he definitely had psychological problems before caring for Alicia, but constantly caring for someone that is alive yet not conscious must have also driven him a little crazier. After so many years of talking to someone with no response, his imagination must have gone on and he dreamt that she could respond and they had an ongoing relationship. He would even speak on her behalf occasionally. I think he meant well and didn’t want to hurt her. I also think he truly believed that they had a relationship and were in love and should get married. In his head, this justified raping her unconscious body. Although he didn’t see a problem with doing this, he was sane enough to know that others would clearly think it was wrong, and therefore he kept it a secret. Marco is the only friend that he confides in with certain things, such as the fact that he wants to marry Alicia. Overall it was a depressing film but had a lot of meaning.
Talk to her is a Spanish Drama that shows how difficult it is to communicate with your couple; it shows intimacy and loneliness. This is a film about two women in a coma and the men who love them. It is an expressionist film showing the theater that Pedro Almodovar had in mind. I believe that it is a very original and mysterious movie. This melodrama uses many flashbacks, jumping from the present to the past and so on to tell each character’s story. These flashbacks reveal many details about the movie. For example, we learn that Benigno had discovered Alicia from before she was in a coma. Nevertheless, I find it disgusting that Benigno raped or had sex with this woman in a coma; I do not believe that “being in love” is a justification for this act. I liked the funny episode that involves the female body with a great deal of creative liberty. I did not like the character of Marcos since he was always sad and nervous. I believe that the female nudity shown in this film should not be taken as erotic since the woman is in coma and it is just disrespectful. At the beginning it was hard for me to get interested in it but I ended up enjoying it. I believe that this movie follows and shows into human obsession. This movie is all about exploring the behavior undertaken by women to shield themselves from emotional fragility. It strictly suggests that humans are contradictory and questions devotion, as the men want inaccessible women. Nevertheless, I believe that Almodovar was quite unambiguous sometimes and had many unanswered questions as if he wanted the audience to reflect on them. This movie combines both comedy and sensuality.
I usually consider a film to be great if, upon first viewing, I am profoundly emotionally moved. Talk to Her did just that. I am not exaggerating in saying that it is one of the saddest films I have ever seen. Every character mattered and each of their lives was filled with loneliness and sorrow. However, Talk to Her never succumbs to melodrama. Instead, Talk to Her is an art film that experiments with the conventional narrative structure. As the main narrative progresses, Talk to Her takes minor but important detours into the pasts of the main characters. This structure allows the audience to formulate initial appraisals of the characters that will either stand or fall in light of new background information. This is most poignant with Benigno. Benigno is first presented as a caring nurse, then as a loving voyeur, and finally as a rapist. Because of the way Almodovar formulated the film (e.g. depicting the rape scene through a clever metaphor) we are equally as likely to hate Benigno, empathize with him, or both. Likewise, Lydia is first presented as an important love interest of Marco, but a flashback reveals her to be an enigmatic woman who, much like Marco cannot get over her past relationship. Her death was surprisingly uneventful. Talk to Her expresses how certain people may fortuitously enter one’s life and affect us deeply, and then just as quickly vanish. Relationships, a big theme in the film, are ephemeral, and change just as quickly as one may change partners in a Spanish dance. This is not to say, however, that people are expendable. Every character in the film permanently altered each other’s lives. Without Benigno, for example, Marco may never have recovered from his troubled past relationship – he may never have met Alicia.
The Almodovar film "Talk to Her" was interesting, but also an odd film for me and not one I would watch on my own, if not for this course. I am not sure how to categorize the film. It began as a sad tale with Benigno and Marco in the theater, viewing the actors in a sort of death dance. I felt as though the dancers were either dead or like Alicia, in a comatose state, which caused Marco to weep. Then we realized we weren't dealing with a person who was sound mentally, with Benigno. The story became more sordid, as Benigno seems to have no mind or interests of his own, and we see that he only attends theatrical performances for Alicia, who is in a coma. At first it seems sweet, then we start to peel back the layers of Benigno and notice a more sinister core. I began to feel disturbed when Benigno talked to Alicia as though she was answering and when he became too intimate with the the touching of her body. When we find out Benigno has raped Alicia, it makes you feel ill to imagine a medical personnel and patient confidentiality being so abused. However, I found that with the short story/silent film that Almodovar chose to insert, it did lessen the shock for the viewer. I believe that he did this so the audience would not completely turn their backs on Benigno and so we would maybe even hope for his reform. The story with Marco and the bull-fighter served no real purpose for me, except to get Marco into the hospital with Benigno. Also the wedding out in the middle of nowhere, was also very random for me. I do feel that Almodovar is very talented, it is just that I prefer one of his films like Volver.
Talk to Her was a great film that we watched in class. Narrative-wise, it was very quirky and awkward. The whole rape of the vagina scene was weird, as was the opening scene of the film. Overall, once I got past these strange scenes, I really enjoyed the movie. I especially liked that the movie took a look at occasional lapses in the trust between patient and caretaker, namely sexual lapses. I feel that the issue is seldom explained in movies. Additionally, the love story genre takes an interesting turn in this movie, with deviant views on what love means and between whom it may take place. Additionally, the style of the movie masterfully utilizes flashback scenes, as well as intertextuality. They both really complement the events that unfolded over the course of the movie. Moreover, the way in which the film was divided, with hovering subtitles that indicated which "chapter" of the story was to begin, helped progress the course of the film at a maintainable pace. Finally, the use of closeup shots masterfully helped focus the spotlight of the film on the characters themselves. The setting hardly matters, and neither does the music. The full focus falls upon the characters, their words, their motives, and their emotions.
Talk to Her was a great film. It was beautifully shot and had high entertainment value as well. This movie was rich in plot and character development. The movie opens with a very interesting sequence in a strange "sleep walk" dance. This sequence was a very good way to open the movie and provides foreshadowing for the film. The opening dance features two women dancing while apparently sleeping, and a man trying to guide one of the women in their dance. I believe the man is representative of Benigno, who spends his entire movie guiding Alicia through her coma. I thought the other woman to be Lydia. Through Lydia's coma, Benigno did a lot more to help her than Marco did. At some point in the movie, Marco and Benigno can be seen as the man and first woman interchangeably as they both help each other at various points in the movie. I really enjoyed watching the plot unfold in this movie, and seeing everything come together in the end was a joy to watch.
The movie Talk to Her has a plot that centers on a male nurse, Benigno (Javier Cámara), and his love for a comatose patient that he cares for, Alicia (Leonor Watling). He befriends a man named Marco (Darío Grandinetti) because the love of his life was put in a coma due to a horrible bull-fighting accident. The film has a very clear message on the idea of love and what is accepted in society, but also has an underlying theme of friendship that is shown through filmmaking techniques. Talk to Her uses specific camera work and character placement, as well as different cutting techniques to subtly show and exaggerate the bond between the characters Benigno and Marco, a prime example of a platonic love two men can have. Talk To Her is a movie that shows how an unhealthy obsession can cause a man to do horrible things that do not necessarily fit his personality. Nevertheless, through the editing techniques of character placement, camera angles, and cutting techniques, the movie subtly shows the beauty of a male bond. The director uses the positioning of Benigno in scenes with Alicia to show his love of her. However, the placement of Benigno is changed when Marco is in the scene to emphasize importance of them being together. In addition, the quick cutting techniques in the dialogue between Marco and Benigo show how their conversations are different than anyone else in the movie. Talk to Her shows through indirect techniques that the bond between two men can be stronger than most people realize.
What most impressed me about “Talk to Her” was how the writer and director, Pedro Almodovar wove together fragments to create a cohesive work of art. He not only worked with fragments from the story but included other forms of media such as song, dance and silent film. By doing this he imbued the film with more emotion than a simple, straightforward narrative would allow. It also allowed him to more delicately and abstractly address the disturbing subject matter. To be blunt, “Talk to Her” is about two men in love with a human vegetable. One of these men, Benigno, a troubled but well-meaning nurse, acts on his desires. He impregnates his patient, Alicia. The fact that Almodovar managed to make this the basis of an endearing love story, is a testament to his talent as a filmmaker. It is easy to make a love story about two single twenty somethings in New York City. It is not so easy to make a love story about a male nurse and a vegetable. I only wish more filmmaker’s would take the risks Almovodar did. “Talk to Her” opened my eyes to the fact that it is possible to present non-traditional subject matter in a non-traditional way and have a more profound emotional impact than any more mainstream film I’ve seen in a while.
I'm not too familiar with Spanish films, but Talk To Her captivated me in the most inexplicable ways. Almodovar left quite an impression on me and I really look forward to seeing more of his work. Societal norms essentially make Benigno a neurotic, almost sickening character whose actions might make us hate him. I loved his innocent approach and his genuine love for Alicia and that's what made me forgive him so easily. Sure, he creeped me out a few times, but his character just felt so sincere that it was almost impossible not to overlook the reality of his actions. I also appreciated Mario's trusting nature and how easily he vowed to help Benigno during his imprisonment. Each character in the film represents a different side of humanity and they all blend so harmonically and so naturally. Almodovar's depiction of the relevance in Alicia's very being, even though she spends most of the film comatose is both admirable and surprising. I definitely feel like Talk To Her is a masterpiece in and of itself. I've never seen a film quite as moving and I can only hope that it inspires others as much as it did me.
Talk to her Talk To Her is an Oscar winning movie directed by Pedro Almodòvar published in 2002. The story is about two men both in a similar, tragic situation, where both of their beloveds are in deep coma. For the main character Marco (Darìo Grandinetti) however, the movie shows his relationship with Lydia (Rosario Flores) before she falls into coma. I believe that the movie is very well directed. Examples are many, but Almodòvar often uses colors to express the different characters. Furthermore, he is also very good at expressing feelings throughout the movie, as feelings are very much a major part of the movie. I really liked the movie, even though I don’t always fancy movies that require you to read the subtitles. This movie explicitly shows the themes of loneliness and connection between the different couples. The fact that these women are in coma and the men are always besides them is beautiful. Nevertheless, the director also has different methods that make the movie unorthodox, as the scene where the man enters the vagina and maybe the beginning ballet scene, which may confuse you a bit. But all in all, I would recommend other to see talk to her because it is very different from other movies.
There is a lot to discuss about Talk to Her, as it explores many different film strategies that allude to it being a powerful expressionist film about loneliness and connection. However, what I find to be the most defiant, and interesting element of the film to be is the abstraction scene. The use of an abstraction scene is necessary for us to understand the character Benigno's motives and alarming actions, that is his raping of unconscious Alicia. Director Almodovar implements "frame within a frame" with the silent movie Shrinking Lover. Benigno doesn't think he did anything wrong, bu tin the back of his mind he knows it is. By showing the Shrinking Lover we see it how Benigno sees it, that he does it out of love. The abstract scene is necessary because we find his actions so disturbing that there needs to be a way the audience needs a way to feel empathetic in order to in one way or another rationalize his actions. Another abstraction of the rape scene Almodovar made was the cut away to the the lava lamp. I believe he did this because like the situation, a lava lamp is absurd and strange, yet we accept it for what it is.
I am not very fluent in Spanish films, but Talk to Her was definitely not one of my favorite films. The theme of loneliness and desperation was somewhat intriguing and interesting to me, but the overall character personalities and types didn't do the film justice. I feel that the fact that I came to dislike Benigno's character so much took away from me enjoying and really being able to analyze the film as a whole. I was very stuck on how much he seemed to just be a creepy, selfish man and how we were supposed to think his actions were out of love but this distracted me even further. His actions were all I could see and I couldn't get past them. I was also aware of the film's attempts to make us feel for Benigno in a way and to think it was out of love, but I couldn't bring myself to see it this way and was honestly only worried about the characters making me feel uncomfortable.
The auditorium for the concert, the young the male nursing Shibeininuo and middle-aged writer Mark happened to sit together. The two never met the man at the same time moved for some beautiful music. Bei Ninuo see tears from the eyes of Mark and his own at the moment has also been moved to an upsurge of it hard, he knew that the provisional seat of the man himself has a kind heart. Short-term interoperability of the mind, Bei Ninuo did not expect and will continue to encounter this kind-hearted people, and is met in the clinic work.
Bei Ninuo and marks of age and identity, the lover of the two know each other, but their situation is so similar. The Bei Ninuo's girlfriend, Alicia, is a ballet student, the moment she was lying in bed clinic Bei Ninuo where. Mark's girlfriend, Lydia, is a professional bullfighter, she was injured at work, lying on the clinic. The same happened to make two so to get to know. Marks every time after Alicia's ward, see Bei Ninuo Alicia in softly tell.
They are two different people, face the same situation, the feelings of their heart different from each other. Beini Nuo heart was very happy, because he can from a loved one so close, more importantly, he was sure she could hear him, can understand and share his love. But Mark always feel very sad and depressed because he could not communicate with their loved ones, but do not know her heart in mind. Bei Ninuo told Mark to speak against the coma patient is a kind of therapy, even though she can not answer, do not know what you are talking, but also insisted that it, thus allowing early resumption of the patient. Common experiences and encounters psychological idea of different men closer together, Mark in Bei Ninuo's under the influence of gradual changes, the friendship between the two is also the continuation ...
I actually saw this film some time ago also back in Mexico, and I did not like it very much to be honest. But now that I saw it again I was able to appreciate it a little bit more. Besides, it is in Spanish and I am a native Spanish speaker so it was obviously more comfortable, although subtitles kind of drifted my attention away. When I think about it, two men falling in love with two women that are in coma is a very unusual situation. To me it was kind of weird Lydia’s profession. When the viewer is informed about Benigno sexually abusing Alicia, it really made me sick. I just do not really understand why Almodovar would portray such an event in a film, which is something I personally found disturbing. A theme that became more than evident and very important in the film was the one of loneliness, particularly with Benigno who lives by himself in an apartment. I noticed something interesting too, which relates to Benigno’s name. Benigno in Spanish means something good, benign, gentle; and in the film he lives up to his name with the exception of that sexual incidence, he is a nurse who has been taking care of people, like his mother and then Alicia. I also found interesting how Almodovar managed to get two completely different people to get along, Marco who is very masculine and like a tough guy, and Benigno who is the exact opposite, ‘sweet’, sensitive and with girl-like attributes.
Talk to Her I found Talk to Her to be a rather odd movie. At first I didn’t really like it, the plot seemed to jump around, the film felt somehow dirty, and Lydia’s nose was quite distracting. However, the movie grew on me as I continued watching, and over time I became interested in the story shown on the screen, in the lives of the characters and their interactions with one another. Benigno’s innocence and Marco’s harder, more realistic view of the world make for an interesting dynamic and an interesting film. In spite of Benigno’s rape of Alicia, the audience is encouraged to continue to empathize with him, as evidenced by the filmmaker’s decision to not explicitly show the rape and the rather soft manner in which it is dealt with for the rest of the movie. In spite of his shortcomings, the audience is heartbroken when it is revealed that Benigno has committed suicide because he believes that his comatose love has died. While beginning in a rather odd manner, Talk to Her develops into a powerful drama that pulls viewers into the story and keeps them in their seats until the very end.
Normally I am the type of person who only enjoys comedies and other films that bring good vibes and have a happy mood, so as a result, Talk to Her was not one of my favorite films that we have watched thus far in this class. The movie is about a man named Benigno who has a strong love for a helpless victim of a terrible bull fighting accident named Alicia. Alicia will never be the same again and seems to be a vegetable because of extensive injuries. The physical state of Alicia will not prevent Benigno from showing his true love for her. However, this isn't any ordinary love story. Benigno takes advantage of Alicia, who is in a coma, and impregnates her through rape. This scene is extremely disturbing and isn't the type of scene I like to see in movies, and on top of this, Benigno commits suicide in the end because he thinks that his beloved Alicia has died. I really didn't like Benigno's character in the movie and it took away from the enjoyment of the film in a way. The director, Almodovar, uses many interesting directing techniques in the movie however. He uses quick cutting techniques between conversations and is able to enhance the relationships between the characters solely through his directing techniques.
Going in to see Talk to Her, I was not positive I would enjoy the film. However, by the end of it, I was able to appreciate what the film was trying to convey. It’s not one of my favorite movies we have viewed this semester, but I did enjoy watching it. The film was written and directed by Pedro Almodovar, who has a unique and interesting style. The film consists of two men, Benigno and Marco, who become friends while taking care of women in comas, Alicia and Lydia. While taking care of these two women, the men become infatuated and have deep fantasies about them inside their heads. Through this, we see loneliness and intimacy as two major, reoccurring themes in the narrative. The film studies the past, present and future and utilizes flashbacks to tell the narrative. Furthermore, Almodovar uses different colors to express different people in the film. Comparable to some other movies we have seen, Almodovar utilizes the film within a film technique. Inside Talk to Her, there is a short black and white silent film, The Shrinking Lover. It’s about a man who shrinks and goes into his lover’s vagina to be with her forever. It was a very unique attachment to the story, which depicts the style of Almodovar. Overall, I do not believe this film is for everybody, but I would recommend for people to watch this film or any other Almodovar film for that matter.
Talk to Her by Pedro Almodvar showed the difficulty of communication amongst males and females, lonliness, intimacy, and the persistence of lve beyond lost. This film will captivate you. Almodovar created a dramatic space for us to dwell in, and knocks any preconceived notions of morality and certainty out of his twisted world, and carries us along into it.It was one of the most emotional touching movies I have ever seen. The film collides together with two storylines in a perfect setting. Definitely worth watching again. The music was amazing; beautiful cinematography, great rhythm. And the actors were amazing!
I truly enjoyed the film, Talk to Her, by Pedro Almodovar. I think the story line flowed very smoothly and was a creative, refreshing, although psychotic idea. Almodovar is very clever in saying what he needs and/or wants to say, without actually filming it. The best example of this is when Benigno rapes Alicia. Instead of showing an actual rape scene, Almodovar has Benigno go to a silent film (something he learned Alicia loved to do before she went into a coma) and then talk to Alicia what he saw. The silent film ultimate has a man shrinking down small enough to fit into his lovers vagina and pleasures her – which is a metaphor for Benigno taking advantage of Alicia.
I like that with Alicia’s miscarriage of the baby, she awoke from a coma. This gives the message that with death comes rebirth – although it would be a natural cycle of events for a mother to die before her child, it still portrays the same idea. The same is true of Benino’s rape, imprisonment, and ultimate suicide, which means he loses Alicia for ever. At the same time though, the ending implies that Marco can start a new relationship and life with Alicia since both Lydia and Benigno have passed away.
I had two initial reactions to Almodovar’s “Talk to Her. “ My first reaction was that I enjoyed the devotion that Benigno and Marco have for Alicia and Lydia. There is a sort of forbidden love because of their loves being in the hospital. Even though this love is forbidden, to me, it seemed very selfless of the two men. While I enjoyed this sort of selfless love Marco and Benigno’s constant care for their two women became a little bit creepy in my opinion. I felt this way more about Benigno than Marco because I can understand that Marco has some sort of guilt causing Lydia’s accident with the bull. Benigno on the other hand really struck me a sort of creep because he hardly knows Alicia. When he views her dancing from his apartment while Alicia is practicing dancing toes a fine line that seems a little bit creepy, but when Benigno obsessively start caring for Alicia is when his character crossed the strange line for me. The men seem to have no life outside to tending to Alicia and Lydia, but when I began to enjoy the movie more was when the two men become friends. Their unusual friendship was a highlight for me and I enjoyed the connection they shared through their odd similarity.
Some might disagree with me but I was not a fan of Talk to Her. I understand that Benigno felt passionate about his love for the dancer Alicia but he only knew her through watching her dance. When Alicia ends up in a coma after a car accident, Benigno, a nurse at that hospital ends up taking care of her. Benigno and Marco, a journalist, bond during a dance recital. Benigno and Marco are reunited when Marco is in the hospital visiting a woman named Lydia. Lydia was a bull fighter who was injured during a fight, and is also in a coma. Benigno and Marco have strong emotions for Alicia and Lydia but they handle themselves differently. Benigno becomes so obsessive of his patient while Marco maintains his masculinity. I like how Almodovar did not outright show a rape scene but the fact that he is conveying a character raping a woman in a coma, is hard for me to not feel disgusted. I understand Benigno really did love Alicia but he has mental issues and this did not need to happen.
This is by far my favorite movie of all the movies we have seen in class. First of all, since the first time I saw an Almodovar film (I cannot remember which one was it) I feel in love with the way he does his job. The plot of this movie is so captivating and interesting that is hard to take your eyes of off the screen, even for a brief second. I really enjoyed watching the main characters watching a movie right next to each other. From that scene (where they were strangers to each other), you can almost begin to really know the personality of both, Benigno and Marco. Another thing that I noticed that is really interesting, and since Spanish is my native language, is the name choices of the characters. Beningno means benign, gentle, kind. And Marco means frame, a rigid structure that surrounds or frames something. For me, these names, in just one word, describe the most general characteristic of each character. When Benigno is fired and goes to prison for “raping” Alicia is heartbreaking. He is really naïve and innocent, and he really thinks that he is in a relationship with his beloved Alicia. He takes such good care of her, and dedicates his whole life to that girl. And clearly, he is not psychologically well.
This was the first Almodóvar film that I have seen, and after watching this film I truly appreciate his story-telling prowess. This narrative and the short clips we saw in class from Bad Education have an incredible ability to draw you in. I was enamored and engaged with this film from the first scene. The dance at first was perplexing. I was not aware of that art and the intertextual importance of it, but seeing the two main characters’ reactions and Benigno’s narration I was drawn into the story of his character and then later on the various expressed relationships throughout the film. I loved the use of bright colors. It felt thoroughly Spanish and for me it added to the appeal of wanting to visit Spain. The themes of relationships that are connected and broken throughout the film along with the sort of innocence and ignorance of Benigno were very complexly depicted. Coming away from the movie I wasn’t fully able to come to an opinion of Benigno. Is he a truly bad person for what he did, or does his innocence and deep mental problems just make you sympathetic towards him? I don’t know, and if that was the point, well than that was very well done. This was thoroughly engaging, but it left me feeling a bit anguished. It is as if the story didn’t go the way I planned and hoped it would. I have been so used to films with definable characters that could be marked as either good or bad, but here it’s hard to say. Did Marco even display the sort of machismo you would expect from a male protagonist? In some sense yes, but in another maybe not so much. This film explores characters and stories that reside in the shades of grey or in the middle of the spectrum, and I truly appreciate that. It’s nice to see these films that challenge your expectations and established perspective.
Having never seen an Almodovar film, I was not sure what to expect. However, having seen this film, I can really appreciate his ability to instantly capture the audience's attention and really tell a beautiful story. The movie opens with ballet dancing before panning back and revealing that we are watching people watching a movie. While this ballet film seemed out of place for a while, it came together in the end. This was especially the case after our class discussion, where it was suggested that each of the dancers represents a character in the film.
Even though the movie was in Spanish, I was still about to connect with the characters through their facial expressions and the available subtitles. The fact that this was a foreign film did give it an entirely different feel and style to it. The bright colors and the set locations also helped add to that.
In terms of the individual characters, I found that I was able to connect with Benigno the most. I felt that I was able to understand his love and devotion for Alicia and this kept me from writing him off as a truly horrible person for raping her. While I was stunned and horrified by his actions, I think it was more a moment of desperation than anything. That he came to the realization that he may never get the chance to be with her if she gets better and leaves the hospital, and that that drove him to do what he did.
Overall, I really enjoyed this movie and would definitely watch another of Almodovar's films.
In regards to Talk To Her, suffice it to say, I was not exactly thrilled. The opening dance scene, for example, may have fit with the story in various ways, but the dance itself was just the taddest bit off-putting. I feel that the fact that the dance right away made me wonder what the Hell was going on within that specific dance performance was hurtful to my first impressions of the film right off the bat in that it already had caused a little bit more judgment to creep in there than what you should go into a movie with. I am not saying that it did not work with the film, just that it was an interesting way to start off.
In regards to the film as a whole, I am not quite sure how I feel about it - the story itself is not exactly my cup of tea - a dude raping a hospitalized coma woman - not something I would pay to see - but at the same time, I can appreciate that the filmmakers are possibly trying to get specific messages across, again, messages potentially blocked by judgments that come up as a result of the basic, bare-bones storyline or main plot throughout the film. Independent character studies and smaller more in-depth films are nice every once in a while, but I find they have to appeal to me in a certain or major way, otherwise, there is every possibility I will merely end up either bored or repulsed, depending on the subject matter and how it is handled, and whether or not the film itself is even good, which increases the potential for the completely wrong kind of judgment of a film.
In Talk to Her, I found myself connected to Marco yet not to Benigno. Benigno’s situation of being obsessed with a women who ironically lands in the same hospital as him, thus causing Benigno to care for then rape the woman makes me have sympathy for this man yet leaves me disconnected to the character. Marco gave me a character that was a lot like Benigno, innocent with good intentions, yet didn’t go as far as Benigno and cross the line I feel he crosses. The rape scene is brilliantly set up and instead of “creeping the audience out” the sort film placed in-between the sequence entitled “The Shrinking Man” creates this humorous image. What threw me off from the entire film, causing me to go in and out of the movie, was that there were no sub-plot and nothing else going on in the film. This is true for a narrative style and sticking to a beginning to climax and falling action, but I found that style to be dull. Or perhaps if I had a stronger connection to Benigno I would have wanted him to succeed. Sadly my connection with him on a level was lost, taking me away from the story and leaving me not pleased with what I saw.
Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her is a moving and troubling film, but I have not found it easy to say clearly just what is so moving about it in a larger perspective. Of course, the most disturbing action of the story is plain. One of the two chief male characters, the hospital nurse Benigno, rapes a comatose young woman, Alicia, a woman who is under his professional care. The rape is shocking enough, but the fact that the victim is completely unconscious and helpless can seem to make the violation even worse. What is almost unethical is the fact that the movie treats Benigno as a largely sympathetic character. It is arguable in the way that the story is depicted as it allows us to avoid confronting fully and seriously what Benigno has done to Alicia. For me, it took a while to get around this fact, as I was thrown off by it. We are also not directly shown the rape or any part of it. Instead, the rape is implicitly indicated on screen by an odd collision of abstract shapes. This was certainly an interesting way of portraying what is the most important scene of the film. When it comes down to it, I was a bit rattled by this film and not in a way that would make me like it or make me want to see it again. In other words, I did not love or hate it.
This film was very interesting to me, but I'm not certain that it was interesting in a good way. First off, the dance scene to open the movie kind of turned me off right from the beginning. While I would agree that it did fit the movie, and it did succeed in catching my attention, I was not a fan of it to start the film. Next, the story line was actually somewhat interesting, but the fact that the man raped a woman in a coma was a little too much for me. This made me question whether he was simply desperate and needed to do it for comfort, or whether he was simply kind of crazy. This film was very aesthetically pleasing with its vibrant, bright colors. The colors definitely kept my eyes on the screen and created a happier feel to the movie even though scenes such as the rape were somewhat disturbing. This film was not my favorite but it definitely wasn't my least favorite either. While I can't say I really liked it, I can say that it was interesting and it held my attention throughout.
Marc Pollack C10553848 The film entitled, “Talk To her” which was directed by Pedro Almodóvar, is an interesting story of how two similar situations with complete strangers, can bring those who are involved together. Benigno, who is a male nurse, has an apartment that oversees the dancing studio where classes are taught by Alicia teaches. As creepy as it may sound, without even meeting her, Benigno falls head over heels in love with her. As the movie plays on, we see as Alicia endures a terrible car crash which lands her in the hospital in a Coma, the hospital is that of which Benigno resides as a Nurse. Realizing this, he now sees his opportunity to comfort his love and be there for her even if she doesn’t know for sure who he is or that he is even there. Similarly, a bull injured a popular Bullfighter named Lydia, during one of her matches and this lands her in the same hospital, even in the same Coma Wing as Alicia. Marco, who is a journalist who had interviewed Alicia shortly before her match, blames himself for her getting hurt. The two men, Benigno and Marco begin to bond, which in my opinion was a very interesting scenario. Two men, who have remorse and who share love for the patient, becoming friends, I personally wouldn’t have seen that coming, especially in the wing of a hospital. Overall, this film kept you on your toes and as you watched it, the more you hoped for the two couples to work together for a future.
The movie Talk to Her shows how powerful a human relationship can be. From the start of the movie, many relationships are established including that of a male nurse and a comatose patient. Of course the coma patient does not know she is in this relationship but the nurse creates one with her anyway, treasuring her presence more than anything. There is also a relationship established between the two male characters in the movie, the male nurse and a man that has had his girlfriend slip into a coma as well. The movie seems to establish itself as a movie about the women in the comas and how the men treat them while they are in the hospital. Lydia and Alicia are shown as opposites in the movie. Alicia transitions from being completely unable to take care of herself in a coma to starting a new relationship with the man that once loved and was betrayed by Lydia. In contrast, Lydia is shown as going through the change of being a strong and powerful bullfighter to ending her life in a coma without being able to say goodbye to the ones she loved. The importance of these women and the grace of the human body are shown all throughout the movie Talk to Her. In many scenes, there is an emphasis placed on the human body to convey how fragile life is and how quickly it can change. There is a direct relationship between the two women and how their differing lives interact and completely change directions shown through how their bodies are highlighted in the movie. That being said, there is also a huge underlying theme of friendship that is established very quickly in the movie, even though it is not as obvious as the relationships between the men and the women in the movie. Overall, this movie was extremely interesting and had a unique plot line that took the audience all over the place with many twists and turns. Alexandra Ball C07809270
Talk to Her Talk To her is a unique and somewhat creepy film about love. The film is a narrative, which I believe is detrimental because it makes it harder for the viewer to connect with the characters on a personal level. Personally I disliked both male characters (Benigno and Marco) because of this. Although I overall did not enjoy watching this movie, I liked how different it was from a normal love story. The main plot of Talk to Her is about the development of a great, unconditional relationship between two men, but these two men have met only because of their strange relationship and unfortunate accidents with two women (Alicia and Lydia). Benigno is truly the strange character in this film as he is obsessed over a woman he has never met and ends up caring for her while she is in a coma. Marco and Benigno meet when Marco’s lover, Lydia is severely injured in a bullfight and is in a coma as well. These two men spend countless hours taking care of their “lovers” and become the best of friends. They tell each other everything and although some of Benigno’s actions are questionable (stalkerish?) Marco still gets close to him. The movie is centered on their unconditional friendship and even when Alicia gets raped they do not judge each other and stay friends. Coming to another point that was extremely disturbing to me was the fact that Alicia was raped, and having the child woke her up from the coma. I have no clue what this is supposed to represent nor what Pedro Almodovar was trying to convey but to me it is nothing but disturbing. The movie was extremely troubling to me and one of my least favorite films viewed in this class. Erik Rueckle-c10166645
After watching “Talk to her”, I was confused because of two opposite feelings about the movie. I was uncomfortable to see that Benigno justifies him trying to have sex with Alicia who is in comma since he nurses her devotedly. But still, in some of parts, I praise Benigno’s dedicated love for Alicia who cannot remember about him. I don’t think director Pedro tries to beautify love by justifying Benigno’s raping or exalts pure love. If he wants to represent pure love for this movie, he should make the conclusion that Benigno has true love with awaked Alicia. However, in this movie, Benigno just collapse himself by too delving into his emotion. The movie showed two failed love and let us know that love with only lame passion is ridiculous. Benigno and Marco’s love is incomplete and unstable. They felt like they got true relationship with their girls but actually they don’t even be able to truly communicate with their lovers. After Alicia became in comma, Benigno keeps trying to talk with her. But, before her accident, when he can normally communicate and fall in love, he couldn’t talk with her and secretly watching her. In other words, Benigno takes advantage of situation to own her; that is no true love. Even, Marco lose Lydia since he couldn’t open his mind to her. I think director Pedro just leaves the question to us about what is real love.
I found "Talk to Her" to be moving and disturbing all at the same time. The movie started with a bizarre interpretive dance scene that sort of set the stage for the entire film. I found the dance scene to be a little strange and maybe a bit too drawn out. I think it would have been more effective if it would have been shortened. It got a little boring after awhile and made me lose some of my initial interest in the film. The other problem I had with the film was that I did not find myself relating to either of the main male characters. Part of that I think was the narrative structure of the film and the fact that both characters were male and I am female.
The most disturbing part of the film was obviously Benigno raping the comatose Alicia. I found it really horrifying especially the fact that in Benigno's mind it was a mutual loving relationship. Obviously this showed that there was definitely something mentally wrong with Benigno. The film portrayed love in a strange way and in the end I found the main theme of the film to be friendship instead of love. Marco is clearly the more relatable character and he stands by Benigno's side and remains a good friend throughout Benigno's ordeal. So, I guess all in all if you look at the film as a film about friendship it was pretty moving. It is definitely not a love story, though.
I found “Talk to Her” to be an interesting though somewhat disturbing film. On the one hand, I thought that the acting was good and the convergence of the two stories was interesting. Benigno’s obsession with Alicia was well-done and realistic; the way his benign intentions towards her manifested in such a horrible way was logical and disturbing. Though Benigno was, to my mind, decidedly evil after the rape, the journey to that point did an excellent job of making him a somewhat sympathetic figure. He was not malicious, just naïve and disconnected. Marco, meanwhile, was a likeable character in a very difficult situation, and certainly the anchor of the film. However, I completely disconnected with Marco at the end of the movie after Benigno’s crime came to light. Clearly, I simply do not think the same way as Almodovar on this count; to me, finding out a friend of mine raped a coma patient would be too unforgivable for me to actually assist him in any way. This was the movie’s only big misstep for me, but it greatly impacted my opinion of the ending. However, I do like the way Almodovar shows Benigno’s love to be strange, with his final impetus for the rape coming from that odd, tongue-in-cheek silent movie; he clearly did not understand what he was doing if a tiny man walking into a vagina was his frame of reference. In that way, Benigno is juxtaposed with Marco, who had a real mature romance and, hopefully, will have another one in the future with Alicia.
‘Talk to Her’ was truly a unique film. A mixture of romance and tragedy paired with an original way of shooting a film. There were times when I feel the film got out of hand. For example the graphic rape scene and the bizarre opening scene. However once you get over these powerful scenes the film really opens up into a twisting and interesting love story. The way two men obsess about a girl in a coma is something I have never seen before. The film was full of surprises and I was never sure which route the Pedro Almodovar was going to take. For example I thought that Benigno would never do anything to hurt Alicia but then he rapes her. In a sick way I feel that he loved her so much that he thought it was acceptable. It is not the normal style of rape depicted in films. He stays inside of her for a excessively long period of time. As a college student we often her about how people take advantage of others when they are drunk and there is a fine line between loving someone and taking advantage of them. The film certainly raises some extreme moral issues but I feel this was not the aim of Almodovar. He was trying to create a suspenseful drama but for the majority of the film I was not captivated but it.
Ii was a pretty interesting film. The way that Almodovar make his movies is quiet amazing. I think he is a pretty creative guy and "Talk to Her" was an example of how combine a lot of factors to have this result. "Talk to Her" was a mix of love and a kind of sadness. Benigno is character that easily reflects that is sick and the movie gave me the reason by the moment he rape alicia, but even with that Marco feels compassion about him and kid of help him and take care also of Alicia. Something that makes me curious, was the way that Beningno and Marco meet each other, and the relation they have. overall i think the best word to describes the film is Bizarre. It shows how the creativity of a person has no frontier to make these kind of movies.
It is a touching movie.It touches people little by litter and launch the love mind in people's heart.And personally I love the pace of this movie. Actually I like falling in sleep when I'm watching a "slow-pace" movie, director Pedro Almodovar's rhythm has a spiritual,some time even faster than me, through whole movie I don't have time to guess what would happen I just follow the pace and it becomes easy to make unexpected sense of drama. In talk to her, there is a 7-minute spanish silent scene,"shrinking man" .In that love story, the man devote him self completely to his lover, we fully struck down by it and so does Benigno.It also references the reason of the Alicia's pregnant and the fate of the actor. The movie can recall the purest felling about love from people's heart, I think the ending makes the story perfect,Alicia woke up,she saw Marco and smile like she falls in love at the first sight,everything becomes more meaningful.Talk to her, talk to her and never stop talking to her.that makes Benigno's love for Alicia becomes a faith of him to give her happiness.
Talk to her one of the famous movies of Almodovar, since my point of view is a very dramatic film. Where love is one of the main topics, but through the movie you can see how that pure love turns into something disturbed in my opinion. It was very shocking to see how Benigno thought that the love Alicia and him had was pure, the truth is that he just saw what he wanted, because in a moral point of view is irrational to have sexual relationships with a woman in coma. But at the same time you can see how deeply in love he was, that he got to the point to die if few words “for love”, is demonstrated during the film that the only things he wants in life is Alicia. Definitely through the movie you can see the different style that Almodovar uses, you can simply see it through the colors he uses in the scenes. Also you can see that this movie has a climax that is when the rape occurs, as well as a resolution. I consider the resolution of the film, the scene where Alicia is acting and then Marco is in crowd watching her, and suddenly it appears Marco and Alicia, which I interpret as a following scene where a love story will involved Marco and Alicia. This is also shocking because, Marco was a good friend of Benigno who died for passionate love. Also after you see the movie is good how the title of the movie Talk to her is very ironic, because I think is way of expressing how Benigno really can’t talk to her because in her health condition Alicia can’t listen. Finally, Talk to Her is a movie that everyone should see because it gives you an orientation into something different, a style that burnishes over others.
I found the movie Talk To Her a little interesting but romantic. I consider it also a dramatic film. The main characters Benigno and Marco are friends who are passing through the same situation of being in love with a woman who is in a comma. The relationships between the main characters were a little weird and disturbing at the same time. For example, the part of the movie where Benigno raped Alicia while she was literally dead was very overwhelming and horrible. You could see through the movie how Benigno was a person with mental problems, and it was reflected in the way he was in love with Alicia. On the other hand, Marco shows he is a good friend who stands by Benigno´s side the whole time. I do not see myself reflected in any of the main characters. Therefore, this was not one of my favorites movies in the class.
Talk To Her is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen, and yet I very much enjoyed it. I think the fact that Almodovar portrays the raping of Alicia as not clear is very interesting.
On one hand, all logic and evidence would point to Benigno acting as the raper. Although in his mind, he would not be raping her as their love is mutual for each other. He is clearly greatly moved by the shrinking man, a film about a man entering a woman vaginally. Benigno does not wish to do Alicia harm and is so in love with her that he wants them to be married. I have heard of the Florence Nightingale effect, where people fall in love with their care-taker, and while I have not heard of a term that goes the opposite way, it is not incomprehensible that such a condition would exist.
On the other hand though, Benigno would never do anything to harm Alicia in anyway. Even his name, with the root of benign means that he wouldn't do harm. In the end, we must first decide if Benign would view them having sex, and a child as harming her in anyway. Through his actions, I think that he shows that he does not believe that this would hurt her and as a result, I do think that it was Benigno who raped her.
On another note, I found Marco to be despicable. Much like a parent that walks out on a kid and family, I found that I could not sympathize with Marco at all after he left Lydia. While I would completely understand him wanting to leave her, I cannot understand leaving the country so that you do not have to do it in person. Even if Marco had stopped caring for her and begun seeing other people, but upon her awaking had come and spoken to her and said he was leaving her, that would be different. But his way was just cowardly.
Let me start off by saying that I loved this movie! It took me by surprise because I wasn't expecting the movie to take the turns that it did. As usual, I saw the movie with no prior knowledge of what it was about. I saw that the movie was in Spanish along with the woman who was a bull rider and knew for sure that I was going to be put to sleep, but I was wrong. Talk to Her was so interesting and random. I felt a little bad for Marco and Benigno because they were in love with women in comas, who probably would not have dated them if they were awake. Benigno's obsession with Alicia is what actually made the movie. I felt for him because I understood that he truly loved her, but to others he seemed like an obsessed sick rapist. The short films within the movie were also very interesting. At first it seemed like the usual silent film, then it took a turn for very weird. I wasn't expecting the final scenes when the scientist and his lover got intimate. I thought it was funny and a good way to imply that Benigno had made love to Alicia. I couldn't believe that he actually impregnated her. This movie was full of scandal. It stepped out of the normal. I was hoping that Benigno would get a chance to meet Alicia after she woke up from her coma. Benigno had went through a lot for her. I felt like he should have at least seen her once before he died. The end of the movie implied that Marco and Alicia might possibly end up in a romantic relationship. I don't think that Marco would be a good friend if he did decide to date Alicia. Benigno loved her to death, so I would find their relationship somewhat inappropriate. I hope that Marco would not be that shady. That would be the ultimate betrayal to Benigno.
In "Talk to Her", writer-director Pedro Almodóvar uses a premise of means of exploring love as both a selfless and selfish act. He seems to truly understand how love affects his characters. This time he creates a unique cast: a reporter, a male nurse, a dancer and a female matador. How Almodóvar ties these four lives together is part of the charm of the film. His story jumps through times and instead of being slightly lost, you feel like you're listening to a great storyteller who gives you the details you need at the exact point when you need them. The story he tells gets more interesting as it goes on, while some of the elements may be familiar, no element is ever predictable. I did find the rape scenes a little weird but they were appropriate to what was going on in the film. While movies such as these do not usually interest me, this one sparked an interest that leaves me wanted to see more movies by Almodóvar.
Each time I see a film by Pedro Almodovar, I am taken aback. I enjoy watching this type of film since the characters are very well presented and the plot has also been well devised. Nothing is there by chance, and the audience always has to pay attention. What usually happens to me with Almodovar films is that I have to be extremely attentive in the beginning, because I do not want to match characters or names. The outcome of the movie is rather strange, but I was waiting for something like that to happen. Almodovar likes to bring different themes such as sexuality and relationships with women. I had first seen this movie when it came out in the movies and am glad I saw it again. This makes me want to watch more Almodovar films and immerse myself into this type of genre. On a side note, I enjoy watching Italian movies, and I think these two are very similar. They are far from the Hollywood ideas, since Europeans prefer to have action and drmana in their lives. It is not a Hollywood ending and it is better that way. It is always very interesting to see how everyone connects after all.
I’m not really sure on whether or not I enjoyed the movie because at times I felt very bored, but at other parts I really liked the atmosphere, narrative, characters, and music. I also noticed the use of closeup shots on many of the characters, as well as the flashbacks shown throughout the movie. On the feeling of the movie, it seemed very emotive and I also thought it had a very stylized and profligate approach to it’s filming approach. I really enjoyed the narrative of the love triangle between two men and one woman in a coma. At the same time It was uncomfortable to witness Benigno who was initially infatuated with Alicia becoming her nurse with duties of washing her in the nude and eventually raping her while being in a coma. Also I didn’t really understand why the movie didn’t seem to portray Benigno as that bad of a person, because after that action I didn’t have any respect for his character. I never really had any sympathy for him at all at any point in the movie. There were some other strange scenes including the one where Marco (the other love interest) took Lydia outside and dressed her up to make her seem conscious. The film really made me really question if it’s possible to care too much for somebody in a relationship, what the difference is between love and obsession, and what is considered crossing the line to obtain someone’s love. It’s essentially a story of irregular relationships that are all tangled into one movie. But overall it was a very risky decision to include such a controversial issue into a movie, but I think it was pulled off decently.
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In the movie Talk to her, there was a clip of silent film "shrink lover" (Shrinking Man) lasts for up to seven minutes. In the silent love story, the man who was so in love with the women finally got into her body to devote him completely, fusing into one for their love. I was fully emotion excited by this clip as well as Bei Ninuo. This clip was a reference of both implicitly confessed the causes of Alicia's pregnancy while indirectly implies that the ending of fate of the male actor later on. I feel that in some ways, it is precisely because of the loved girl for the time being has been in the unconscious condition that Bei Ninuo can be so calm and quiet in love with her. Maybe the entity of love can only bloom when we do not feel humble or like an inferior good compared to others. It might sound sad but this insistent of the belief is the thing that impresses people the most. Somebody lost it and somebody had it. The weight for love may be different, because the meaning of love is always not the same towards everyone. Love does not mean you will gain, but simply means that you will dedicate ---- to give everything. You will be rewarded. However, this actually has nothing to with your dedication; your devotion is because you love. If you're lucky, you may be loved in return, it is intoxicating, but that things will not necessarily happen, love simply means that the heart and soul of dedication.
in this movie,The footage at the beginning of that period of music to bring people endless sadness. Marks because it was moved to tears, everything beside Ban Nino aware, because of this encounter will be their fate intertwined together. During that sad music seems to be planted for the last story with a hint of depression. After the performance, they each go their own way At the end of the movie, Alicia and Mark touched the side, which is also sowed the seeds for future feelings. A dance, film slightly tragic ending. "She said," proving once again that the real skill of the master director of Almodovar, the movie has given a profound theme and content. The film gave people a little despair, but despair and hope, that this contradiction is to have some magical color. Someone to love dedication, as long as you are truly a person, even if it will not have any results, but all worth it. Play opera lover "Zoom" is more vivid. "She said," Almodovar again on the floor stairs. Alicia may not know what happened in a coma, even though she knew nothing, but in the misty sky, there is a love light the bad and the atmosphere is always linger at her side this breath, she felt get. The face of a person you love, how long for her dedication.
Talk to her is a 2002 Spanish film. This is a different movie as well. I had never seen something similar before. I like the way everything revolves around the “talk”. There is a lot of love, loneliness and communication. The colors in the film in a way represent these three feelings. Each of the four characters (Benigno, Marco, Alicia, Lydia) has their own way of communicating and each one is like in their own different world. There are a lot of sentiments and once again they represent each of their personalities. I like the way Benigno doesn’t want to harm Alicia and cares for her. I also like how each character works in very different areas so when they come together is interesting. At the same time it is full of drama, I love drama. The dances on the film caught my attention a lot. The fact that the movie was in Spanish was good for me because I’m a Spanish speaking person so it was easy to understand. My feelings got involved and love was all I felt, even though in the movie it sometimes seemed confusing because of the accusations. It was interesting I will definitely see it again.
Talk to Her was truly unlike any other film I had ever seen in my life and I fully enjoyed every second of it. Almodovar uses the relationships between Benigno/Alicia and Marco/Lydia to examine deep psychological and moral controversies. I really like how the viewer’s perception of the characters in the film completely changes as the film progresses. In my eyes, Benigno went from being someone who amazed and inspired me with his selfless passion for his job to someone whose sanity I questioned entirely. I truly believe that Benigno was not a predator but just someone with misguided and abnormal psychological problems stemming from his mother’s death and other unknown childhood complications. Although other characters were suspicions of Benigno’s relationship with Alicia, no one can question that his interest in and dedication to her wellbeing was unparalleled, even by her own father.
I thought that Talk to Her was a fantastic movie. This was the first film by Pedro Almodóvar that I saw, and I have to say, I really admire his story-telling ability. From the very first scene to the end of the film I felt really engaged in what was going on. While at first the scene at the theatre seemed a bit out of place, it made a lot more sense as the film went on. Each of the actors was suppose to represent a main character in the movie. Marco and Benigno are two likeable guys who were put into extremely unfortunate circumstances. The loves of their lives are both in comas, and they are doing what they can to help support them. While it was horrible what Benigno did to Alicia, somehow the film is able to make you feel sympathetic towards him. I never thought I would be able to say that had somebody mentioned that would happen before the movie, but the actor and Almodóvar somehow found a way to turn him into a sympathetic character. I’m also not sure if this was intentionally or not, but I found the use of bright colors to be very strange. There are all of these very unfortunate events surrounding our main characters, but the director chooses to use bright colors for a large portion of the film. Was this to add some sort of contrast? I also really liked the film within the film. I believe it put is into the head of Benigno, and tried to make us understand what he thought the idea of love was.
Talk to her This is the first time I saw Pedro Almodovar's films. In most people's impressions of his movies and his private life, filled with violence, homosexuality, incest, vulgar scene. Whereas, women description of the delicate and full of love. This time, he related to the feelings and friendship of the men.
"Talk To Her" is such a man's perspective, a man of dialogue, to show a woman out. Actor Bei Ninuo shy demeanor, attentive care, pure emotion, like a gentle woman. Around him in a vegetative state guardian for four years, as she was cleaning the skin, joint activities, to accompany her to the sun, reading and telling the dramatic plot, tell her the size of things, but also for her haircut, combed hair, compiled braids. Treated like a normal conscious. All this, just because pure love. Even if he can not help with the vegetative Alicia sexual relationship, this love is still pure touching. If he looked in the window before the car accident Alicia dancing figure while intoxicated Alicia home to steal her hairpin, as people could not bear to blame the behavior of his students love.
Another actor Mark is also a sentimental man. He'll be watching a drama and tears, to hear sad songs away alone. Female bullfighter Lydia gradually born of love, but away from her after she was bull Knocked vegetative state, just because Lydia's ex-boyfriend showed like a more soulful than his love. The Bei Ninuo is his friend, he taught him a woman needs care in any case, even if they are a vegetative state, every word she said she can feel. He would follow with Bei Ninuo like to take care of Lydia, to talk to her, let her sun Alicia. However, he did not insist. When he departed, Lydia died.
Lydia does not look as strong as her work. Including that she would scream piercing because a snake did not dare to live at home. She has a fragile heart, precisely because of the emotional hurt, she will choose a matador. In the middle of a group of men, she appears to be as resolute and unyielding, but because of them have hurt her, and let the Bulls wantonly trampled on their own, to being pulled out from the pain. Compared to Lydia, delicate appearance, Alicia is the real strong woman. Finally defeated after sleeping for four years will wake up, gave birth stillbirth was still burdened with shame to appear in her dance practice room, watching the others leg, turning in circles but can not get up, but still under the guidance of their teachers rehabilitation, she believed that one day they will be back here to practice with.
Bei Ninuo taught Mark how to take care of a woman. Marks will be specifically to visit Bei Ninuo in prison, but also to stop the behavior he wants to escape immediately after the receipt of his message. Bei Ninuo only marks a friend, they take care of two women forged a precious friendship makes him trust him without reservation.
The entire narrative of the story is from the interludes and flashbacks. Look at the film's like to appreciate a good care of the men, glamorous women, and blend all the excellent quality of the men and women, mature, passionate, delicate. The screen smooth and slow, cello from time to time ringing in the ears, I think the most beautiful Spanish dialogue, leading your heart to understand, to the perception of two men inner world.
Lydia died, the Bei Ninuo not see Alicia jailbreak failed, and committed suicide in prison in the theater, Mark recognized the awakening Alicia Alicia also noted The theater moved to tears of Mark, and he had a curiosity. A new possibility began. Mark is smile to Alicia.
Talk to her is a Spanish film by Almodovar. I dont think I have ever seen a movie quite like this one. It is a comedy and although I did laugh it wasn't one of the better movies we watched in my opinion. The movie revolves around a man named benigno who is in love with Alicia, who was in a bull fighting accident resulting in her being in a coma and never being able to function again. This movie gets really weird when he rapes her and impregnates Alicia. This made me want to stop watching the movie but I realized that the director put it in the movie for a reason. But then at the end I did not understand why he commits suicide when he thinks she has died. I enjoyed the movie but I thought that the director could have made Beningo a different type of character. One thing that I did enjoy highly in this movie is the way the director truly made every conversation between people special by using quick cutting techniques while filming.
I haven’t watched a movie as good a Talk to Her in a long time. The story is wonderful, the intertextuality is amazing and the music was very fitting to the movie. I love psychological thrillers and to a certain extent, this movie is one. The character of Benigno is psychologically mad and due to the events, rape, coma, suicide, the genre of thriller may also be applied to this movie. The plot is very interesting. Two men who are in love with two women who are both in Coma’s at the same hospital become good, or may I say, best friends. Their friendship is very weird but it’s valid and truthful. Marco knows of Benigno’s insanity but he still pursues the friends and tries to help his friend survive his own mind. Even though the movie has very shocking events, the raping of a girl in coma, it’s neither violent nor explicit. The placing of the camera at times when all the characters are in the scene, like the scene when everyone is outside in the sun, is perfectly centered, as if the whole world revolves around these four characters. The intertextuality with the ballet scenes is important to the movie. An example is the opening scene, of the interpretive dancing where the man has to push away the chairs for the lady who is out of control and seems even unconscious to a certain extent. The characters in the dance symbolize the characters in the movie to some point.
Talk to Her was a very original movie, centered around the relationships between two men, Marco and Begnino, and the two women who they are in love with, both of whom are in comas. The movie begins with Marco and Begnino meeting at a concert and then later becoming friends, as both have love interests in the same hospital. The film then tells the story of each man’s relationship with the woman they love, using flashbacks to tell their past history. Both relationships take bad turns, as Marco discovers his girlfriend, who was gored by a bull, had cheated on him prior to her injury, and Begnino wrongfully believes a comatose woman reciprocates feelings for him and rapes her, causing her to get pregnant. Marco leaves and Begnino is sent to prison, with Marco eventually coming back to try and help him. In the end, the relationship between Marco and Begnino, strangers at the beginning, ends up being the strongest one in the movie. Overall, it was an interesting way to tell the story and an enjoyable film.
Talk to Her was a weird yet interesting film. I wasn’t sure what to expect and when I thought I had an idea of where the movie was heading it changed completely. I liked the intertextuality that Almodovar incorporated. I also liked the comedic aspect of the film. I speak Spanish so I was able to understand certain jokes and funny expressions that don’t translate the same to English. What disturbed me about the film was that the face of Alicia in a coma was shown many times. Even though it was fake I was very disgusted because the characterization made it seem very real. Also, my opinion of the character Benigno changed completely from the beginning of the film to the end. At first I felt pity for him. The woman he loved was in a coma and his love story seemed hopeless. When it was revealed that he raped her, I was shocked and didn’t like him. But at the end when he was in jail and decides to kill himself because he didn’t find out that Alicia was alive I felt bad for him again. Talk to Her is not the type of film I would watch again but I think it should be watched at least once because of Almodovar’s distinct style.
When I was younger I saw Talk to Her in Spanish and was very confused by the whole film, not that I couldn’t understand it but it just seemed very odd to me. The film focuses on 4 individuals, Benigno and Alicia as well as Marco and Lydia. From the opening scene where the two men are at an odd dance performance performed by older women to the unexpected circumstances which the two men meet once again in the hospital, it is an overall odd film.
It is a drama with some added comedy, while also dealing with very serious topics. I’ve heard some people describe what Benigno did to the sleeping Alicia as rape and others as some type of symbolism of his attempt to awaken her. Only adding to the queerness of the film was that unlike what I expected the film did not lead you to feeling disgust or hate towards Benigno, which I believe a normal film would have. Instead you feel somewhat sympathetic of his character and the position he is in. I believe you can draw many different meanings and themes from this film as is Almodovar’s intent.
It was the first time I watched Spanish movie and I just thought this is just about love story of two couples right after seeing the movie. However, as I think about it more, it teaches us the difficulty of communicating others because in movie, we could see only two men’s side of love, not the mutual love that both woman and man falling in love. It was somewhat sad but I feel angry about the fact that two women were disrespected by men. It can’t be beautiful loves because it is only one sided love and we don’t know about whether two girls really want the men’s love. When it comes to the way the two men loving girls, they are a little bit different. One man is always sad and obsessed by memory of the girl. On the other hand, the other one is very optimistic and want to do his best to take care of her. However, It is very absurd and disgusting that he had a sex with the girl in a coma but it can be also understood as the way of love and obsession by one man toward one girl. This movie was very interesting because it covers the unconventional love.
Although I initially thought Talk to Her, a film by Almodovar, was quite odd, after reflecting upon the film, I can realize why it is considered a great, powerful film. The issue I believe Almodovar is addressing by a means of the film is communication. Without communication, the human race would be significantly less developed than it is today. Something essential as communication to our everyday life is not always as easy as it sounds.
In communication, one may be misunderstood or even not understood at all due to lack of communication. This is where I believe Almodovar creates an argument in regards to communication, specifically between the sexes. I believe that Alicia and Lydia being in a coma represents the difficulty of communicating with the other sex. Further, whether the communication is verbal or sexual, one can not communicate with a person in a coma. As an attempt to communicate his feelings, Benigno rapes Alicia. Although this is perceived by many to be disgusting and wrong, I believe it was a result of Benigno’s inner frustration and inability to properly convey his feelings to the other sex. This film conveys to the audience the idea that we may never be able to perfectly communicate our true feelings to each other.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. One of the main reasons I liked this movie was because of its originality. It’s always a good change of pace to watch a movie that has a unique screenplay and a plot that makes the viewer really think. This film did an effective job in drawing in the viewer and putting us into the movie. Talk to Her was a controversial film as it included numerous racy issues such as infidelity and rape. In some parts, it almost crossed the line as being offensive to some people. I thought that the web of relationships between the four main characters, Benigno, Alicia, Marco and Lydia was very interesting. What stood out to me the most was the way Pedro Almodovar played with emotions. At one time, you could be crying, but in the next scene, you could be laughing. The end of the film was the most powerful aspect to Talk to Her. I left the movie feeling like I went on an emotional roller coaster. Although twisted at times, it was a beautiful piece of work.
I have no words to say, after seen this movie, it shows a sorrow story without any language, as far as I am concerned , I have to praise the perfect skills of those 2 actress, it is the most original way to act, it adopted kind of European opera elements, made this short part more vivid and dramatic. Acting is an attitude, not just a skill, the dim color and the uses of closed-up shots are developed in this film extremely,without any questions, I was conquered by this film, even I just saw a little part of it. This is such a man's perspective, a man of dialogue, to show a woman out.Actor Bei Ninuo shy demeanor, attentive care, pure emotion, like a gentle woman.Look at the film's like to appreciate a good care of the men, glamorous women, and blend all the excellent quality of the men and women, mature, passionate, delicate. The screen smooth and slow, cello from time to time ringing in the ears, I think the most beautiful Spanish dialogue, leading your heart to understand, to the perception of two men inner world.
Yet another strange film. When the summary is read, this movie seems like it will be really good. However, I did not find this to be true. I thoroughly disliked this film. Maybe it was the rape scene where a man impregnates a woman in a coma, that probably did it for me. The movie was not the worst thing I have ever seen, but is still farther from the best. The amount of strange scenes were unpleasant. I feel that since this is a Pedro Almodovar film that there is high value in aspects of the movie that are naked to the untrained eye. Unfortunately I do not really view films in this manner. Though I am sure this movie would be more appealing to a person with years of film experience, for me, I was not into this movie by any means.
Although an excellent example of cinematography doing all the talking it is still a little to out there for me. Unfortunately I was unable to focus watching this movie because of the jaw dropping scenes (especially the rape). I can imagine this to be very controversial but just because I don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't be seen. Sometimes I got lost between the Spanish and English but other than that the acting was decent and the cinematography was bold and well done.
This was an interestingly sad movie. I did not enjoy it because of the sadness. It felt contrived, I felt no empathy or sympathy for the characters. It was an interesting plot, but at some point I felt frustrated, like when Marco reads in a newspaper that Lydia has died in her coma. Also when Benigno goes to jail, that is frustrating to me as well.
In the beginning I did not get the dance sequence. I don't get why he cried either. Little things like that made this movie hard to get into, and it made me frustrated as well.
I believe this film was very well made. The colors are vibrant and the music is very well put.The character, 2 women and 2 men make this film make it quite enjoyable and contribute to the film, spinning an interesting way of looking at loving relationships especially from the male's perspective. One of the characters infatuation leads him to delusion while the other has perpetual heartache.
Overall, this film is quite mysterious and bizarre. I felt like it was symbolic and meaningful. I love Almodóvar's examination of life, and although the story is very complex, he somehow manages to remain focused on the many relationships and intricate characters he presents. There were moments of disgust for me, but there were also moments of great, yet subtle pleasures, such as the beautiful contrast between the beginning and the end of the film.
Almodovar has again succeeded in making a powerful yet original and definitely different film. This film opens with a strange if nothing else silent dance act that can be used as a metaphor for the rest of the movie. It continues to show a very moved Marco and a very unmoved Benigno. The viewer learns at that moment that Marco will be their rock to reality because already Benigno shows a strange absence of emotion. The two men meet again as Marco’s girlfriend is hospitalized in a coma. She is placed in a room with another comatose girl who it is Benigno’s job to look after. Surprisingly here Benigno is able to help Marco with his grief and a friendship blooms. From then on we see Marco trying to bring Benigno back into reality and continues to fail at this aspect. Marco finally leaves when his girlfriend’s former lover tells him that Lydia has been back with him for a while before her accident. Far away doing his job Marco learns that Lydia has died in her coma and also that Alice, the girl Benigno was watching, has become pregnant. Benigno is blamed although he truly believes that his and Alice’s affair was mutual. Marco returns to Spain and tries to help Benigno. As this goes on Alice has a stillborn baby, but awakes from her coma. The movie has a happy ending when Marco smiles at Alice and it says “Next Act: Alice and Marco.”
On paper, this film sounds like it has a really good plot because it is all relatable to real life; intimacy, communication, loneliness etc. However, once I saw the actual movie, I was a little disappointed. My disappointment in the film stems from the lack of emotion felt both on screen and as a member of the audience. It was very somber and disturbing. The rape scene was absolutely tragic and totally incomprehensible because you can't possible fathom why someone would do such a sick thing. I think the rape scene is what sent me over the edge in this movie. One thing I did enjoy from this film was the presentation about communication between the sexes, I did find that interesting. Overall, I did not enjoy this movie, too odd for me!
Talk to Her is a film about love, but also the one about loneliness and communication. In this age of indifference and selfishness, many people are suffering from aphasia; they have lost the ability to communicate with people. People are afraid to get along with the crowd, preferring to face the screen do not want to face to face. Loss of language does not mean losing the ability of the language, it actually means the loss of the ability and desire of wanting to express. The film reveals the actual communication problems that were existed in real life through the care of a patient and wake him up by talking to him. To think from a positive perspective, perhaps the movie is trying to tell people that if you love someone, then try your best to communicate with them so that they will understand your love and actually feel your love. Love is not love without your lover's responses. "He just falls in love with the concept of love." Communication is a two way thing which requires two parties. The film also revealed how people tend to prefer to live in their imagination rather than facing the reality.
Talk to her From this film, we know that the Benigo is a Ordinary man that is not handsome, he study the nurse when he was young because of his mother, he has to take care of sick in bed mother, and he has never make a girl friend. And when his mother was died, he fall in love with a girl that named Alicia, she is a student of a ballet school, and the Alicia is a because girl and she is very rich. But unfortunately the girl get Into a vegetable and be sexual assault by Benigo. In my opinion, obviously, the director is sympathetic to Benigo, in the film with silent film "the lover of narrow form of suggests that the class of the wrong behavior patterns, in order to reduce such behavior of the qi of the animosity, more or less to express the feeling director view: the behavior all for love. However, the alicia’s father may understand, for benigo with such a simple life experience man speaking, he simply love the beautiful west Asia, he just want to always think and beautiful west Asia together, even want to get married with a vegetable, care for her also don't regret. But, even so, the Alicia’s father may forgive class of how so selfish behavior patterns? With persistent love as can be "simple" to do everything from think to take for granted things? As the beautiful west Asia ballet teacher in the movie speak: "nothing is simple!" .
Talk to her to me used some of the best symbolism and allusions in any film I have seen in recent memory. So many parts of the film were interwoven with each other, and by the end you realize that many events were foreshadowed or hinted at earlier. Also given its unique story of a love triangle that is definitely different by most standards, the narrative structure of the film helped explain and give depth to the film, whereas a more straightforward film would have faltered and maybe seemed a little incomplete. The structure also allowed for the differences Begnino and Marco to be shown and highlighted. How two characters who are close be so different and represent so many different things. Also Talk to Her is a rare movie where rape isn’t completely condemned, and the audience continues to feel emotion for Begino even though that happened previously in the film. It shows that people do make mistakes but it doesn’t inherently change them as a person. Sometimes people falter in their lives but that doesn’t change their nature if its actually good or bad.
Talk to Her C04997305 Almodovar’s Talk to Her tells the tale of three intertwining dynamic relationships. The film opens with Benigno and Marco, not having yet met, attending a dance piece with Marco being brought to tears by the performance and Benigno intrigued by his reaction. The film then leads into Benigno and Alicia’s relationship. Benigno is Alicia’s nurse, caring for her while she is in a coma. Benigno has practically stalked Alicia and has developed an unhealthy infatuation with her while under his care. Marco’s relationship is with the famous bull fighter Lydia, whom he is sent to report on. Lydia suffers a severe injury and is sent to the same hospital where Alicia resides. Over Lydia’s stay Marco is consoled by Benigno and forges a friendship with the man seeing the good in him despite his faults. Beniigno eventually impregnates Alicia and is imprisoned. Marco stands by his friend, but Benigno takes his own life. In the end a fourth relationship blooms between Marco and the awakened Alicia. Almodovar tackles the challenge of humanizing the character of Benigno, who would typically be seen as a despicable outcast by the general public. He does this through Benigno’s relationship with Marco. Benigno’s concern for Marco and the compassion he shows throughout their friendship exemplifies the basic innocence and good in Benigno despite his perverse nature. Almodovar successfully tackles the complexities of human interactions and the ambiguity of a person’s overall nature.
Hiram Aparicio C06979667 Talk To her (Hable Con Ella) This movie was crazy! A very complex story design; one has to appreciate the writing behind this movie and its intricate story. I speak Spanish, so I feel like I can also state that the writer who translated it did a very good job. So the way I interpreted this movie is that Almodovar is trying to demonstrate the fragility of romantic infatuations and the subjectivity with which one may view love. The feature has beautiful cinematography and is shot brilliantly. I particularly thought the short film they include was fascinating. The characters are developed so interestingly and unexpectedly that i had to strongly disagree with my friend who said it was boring. I don't see how someone could experience such strange events and beautiful metaphors--such as a female matador and her juxtaposition with a ballet dancer and the differences with which they are portrayed, not to mention the scenes that are implied such as the rape scene and the hinted possible future romantic relationship at the end--and say that that was boring. I don't see how. I found it amazing how many emotions this director could take the audience through, not to disregard the skill with which the actors executed their roles. I think one of the strongest aspects of the film were its attention to detail. For example the fact that Benigno would be named as such adds so much depth to his character and the story line. This is the first film I've experienced by this director but I am quite curious to see his other films--his short films in particular.
Talk to Her was a very sad movie to me. The two men in the movie were hopelessly in love with the women, who were both in comas. I can imagine it to be a very difficult situation to be in. The movie tries to makes the viewer think about it in perspective and what they would do. It portrays the men’s desperation to have the women wake up and love them again. For example, Benigno rapes his comatose girlfriend, yet the movie does not depict him as a villain and it actually makes you feel sympathy for him in an odd way. As the movie provides you with background information on their relationships, it makes you feel sadder for the situation as you get to know the men and their girlfriends. I think as the viewers learn about the men and women’s relationships, it symbolizes the men getting to know each other. I can visualize them telling stories of each other’s past and sharing their memories, both good and bad. The men develop a strong bond through experiencing this together. I think one can only imagine what it’s like to have a comatose girlfriend by also having the same situation. They understand each other’s pain and frustration. The story has a very sad and complicated ending, with one woman dying, and one man committing suicide.
"Talk to Her" is a film about love, but also the one about loneliness, the film about communication. Read some critics, the vast majority are only talking about the former, the latter is the essence. In this age of indifference and selfishness, many people are suffering from aphasia ", lost the ability to communicate with people, including myself. I was afraid to get along with the crowd, preferring to face the screen do not want to face to face. My life is too mediocre? I was too ignorant and tasteless? Or I do not love life and life?
Bei Ninuo said: talk to her, even though she can not answer. When the party was completely silent, the other party have a chance to speak his own mind, this is a how sad thing. In many cases the language and can not help us understand each other, we are facing together to talk and listen, to express and understand the problem. Our lives do not want to open too many people in need to speak, there are too many people have nothing to say when the flight, even if some people listen to, say that it can not understand what you're talking about. Instead, the real exchange and communication is no need for words, and heartfelt love. The real wake-up Alicia the Bei Ninuo love, rather than language, but Alicia knew nothing about. Our love after all, is lonely, because we can not each other warm. Marco's love is restrained, he has not said to Lydia, just quietly watching has been in a vegetative state. Once full of hope, he can not be expressed in Lydia did not know he is not her lover, they can never be mutual understanding, in terms of conscious or unconscious. Finally Lydia died, Marco is probably a relief for his travel as an escape, when we can not face their own emotional.
If you speak to a person, that person does not respond, then you are going to last? Day? Month? Or four years? If you love a person, that person does not respond, then you are going to last? Three months? five years? or life? "Jie Chen critic "she said," in the beginning paragraphs, the assessment is Pedro Almodovar's "She said," he said. This passage, an eight question marks, each with a question mark, I can not answer, perhaps, no one can answer.Damn everyone in the world all need love, love, ah, so noble, luxury, so noble and fragile, have to suffer so many people intake, profane, unknown so trampled. Only the weak and innocent wretch, no pity ......Love A, what kind of people know the love? Is Bei Ninuo understand? Mark do not know how? The two were forced to lose the sense of loss of thinking women know how to? No one knows, because do not understand before, only to say, to express, to exhaust all efforts to do meaningless things, what a luxury self-flagellation. The ignorance from someone you love is unbearable. Definitly as always
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ReplyDeleteThe film’s prime focuses are a series of unusual relationships: Marco and Beningo, Beningo and Alicia, and Marco and Lydia. The most endearing relationship is that of Marco and Beningo, who share a very close bond due to their distressing situations. Marco’s girlfriend is in a coma, and it turns out she had been cheating on him, while Beningo has been fawning over Alicia months before her accident, leading to four years of him taking care of her.
The most questionable twist within the film is Alicia’s pregnancy. Almodovar enjoys torturing the audience and leaving important questions unanswered, or just giving out ambiguous answers, and the biggest question is: Who raped Alicia? The reasonable answer would be Beningo, a man who grew to love her more than anyone else in the world, and had an Oedipal complex for his mother up until her death. He is innocent in his mannerisms, although his obsession makes him slightly dangerous. He spent every waking moment with Alicia, massaging her naked body, and touching her when she had her period.
The scene that makes me believe it was Beningo who raped Alicia is the silent film scene. Beningo watches Shrinking Lover, a bizarre silent film about a man who shrinks and enters his lover’s vagina at the end of the film to be with her forever, and tells Alicia about the film. Chances are, Beningo felt the movie speak to him about how far one is willing to go for love, and the night he shares with Alicia the shrinking man’s sacrifice for love, he may have penetrated her as well. In Shrinking Lover, the man is as tall as the vagina, and it is seen as a door. He strips himself of his clothing and enters the vagina, the most vulnerable place of a woman, whilst nude, which is also a vulnerable stance. Because of Beningo’s innocence, his actions towards Alicia were harmless. He truly loved her, and up until the rape (which is not set in stone) was completely fine.
Overall, I truly liked the film. It points out questions we refuse to ask ourselves, how well do we know ourselves? How well do we know others? In Beningo’s case, he was in absolute denial that was he was doing was wrong, or odd. What justifies our actions? Almodovar asks every question, and it’s up to us to answer.
Every once in awhile, a film comes along that truly communicates the power of love. To me, "Talk to Her" is not one of those films. I will admit, it is shot in a professional and skilled manner. However, the plot of the film is just absolutely terrible. To begin with, none of the characters are likable. Marco cries at everything. He cries at a strange ballet. He cries when he has to kill a snake. He cries at some Spanish song. But he doesn't cry when his girlfriend, Lydia, is gored by a bull and dies in a coma. Go figure. Beningo is caring and kind, but it turns out he's actually a mentally disabled stalker who somehow managed to gain a job as a nurse at an esteemed private clinic. Go figure. And while Beningo may love and care for Alicia, his patient, I don't believe true love (especially mentally disabled true love) quite justifies having sex with a comatose young woman. Ultimately, that's what this film comes down to: condoning the rape of a woman in a coma. Let's just say Beningo had been Alicia's boyfriend/husband prior to the coma, and let's just say he was fully in control of his mental faculties: that's still pretty messed up. While I thought the movie would be about Beningo and Marco bonding over the care of the two women they love, it quickly deviates from this plot and then ambles randomly before reaching its climax. Lydia, the only character I liked and was intrigued by, doesn't even last that long in the plot; it seems her real role in the film was just to get Marco to the hospital to meet Beningo. And of course, who could forget the silent film cut of a small man entering a giant vagina. Even if you step back and ignore the absolute crude nature of this part, it is still completely unnecessary and absurd. Does the audience really need that metaphor so overtly demonstrated and plastered all over the screen in such a foolish manner? It destroys the poignancy of the Beningo's feelings for Alicia. But ultimately, I guess this film won awards and is considered "art" because it follows the rules laid down by "The Five Obstructions". Foreign language? Check. Makes no sense? Check. Overtly sexual? Definitely check. Despite all of my complaining, I will admit the bull fighting scenes at the start of the movie were filmed incredibly beautifully. They captured the tension and drama of the sport spectacularly. I found out later they killed six bulls filming this movie and PETA got pretty upset about it. So I guess Pedro Almodóvar couldn't even get that right.
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DeleteTalk to Her is a very touching film. I felt a bond with the characters and found myself quickly getting lost in the movie. Benigno and Marco are introduced in the beginning, when they are both watching a ballet performance together. Benigno has been going to the ballet, and to silent films because of Alicia, his patient and love. The audience is able to relate to Benigno on this aspect since most people who have ever been in a relationship have done something their significant other likes to do. He states later during the film that going and doing the things Alicia liked to do has made him really live for the past four years. This concept really hit home for me since people I’ve dated have introduced me to new things as well. It is really living to do new things that you wouldn’t normally do on your own.
ReplyDeleteBenigno’s first and second encounters with her are a bit weird to say the least. When he’s in jail, he tells Marco, “I’ve been diagnosed as a psychopath.” According to the DSM-IV, of mental disorders, a psychopath is someone “who persistently disregards and violates others’ rights, they exhibit compulsive lying, they’re reckless, impulsive and promiscuous.” I think he does fit the diagnosis. He rapes a woman in a vegetative coma which is basically like having sex with a corpse. Not only that, but he insists he wants to marry her because they get along better than most married couples. Hello dude, this girl is unconscious! She is totally unaware of anything he is doing or has done! You can’t just marry someone because you want to, this isn’t the stone ages. If you like someone, you have to go through the proper procedures instead of just knocking them on the head and dragging them back to your cave. It is a complete violation of rights when someone is unable to give consent, whether it’s sex, marriage, divorce, anything. Even if Benigno hadn’t killed himself, I don’t think he should have been allowed out of jail. He stole Alicia’s hairclip from her room while he was seeing her father at work. He had an unhealthy obsession with her. Before her, he probably had an unhealthy obsession with his “ailing” mother. However, I think everyone has been in love with someone or at least had a crush on someone they would never be able to have. I think everyone has obsessed over that certain someone, hopefully not to the extent of Benigno.
I think the relationship between Marco and Lydia is interesting as well. It’s certainly not as perverse as the one between Alicia and Benigno, but it’s still not a positive, healthy relationship. Marco is still battling demons from his past relationship, which helps to drive Lydia back to El Niño. I think Marco should’ve left her once he found out her cerebral cortex was destroyed. She essentially committed suicide when she sat down in the bull ring. If she had truly loved Marco, she wouldn’t have done that. When someone’s cerebral cortex gets destroyed, if he or she wakes up from a coma, there’s no hope. The personality will be destroyed as well as memory and almost everything that makes a person human. The movie really hit home for me being a Nursing major and having had friends who have been in comas. I definitely commend both men for staying to take care of the women they love, even though there was little to no hope for either woman.
While watching this film I found it interesting how Almodovar strung together the relationship of Marco and Benigno at the beginning and then followed the love life of their two lovers Lydia and Alicia who both end up comatose. At the beginning of the film, I also found it interesting that a modern dance performance was going on and Marco and Benigno were both seen in the middle of it while watching in the audience. I got the sense that Almodovar was very into the concept of human motion and dancing with emotions throughout the entire film. I also noticed that Lydia and Alicia were involved with hobbies that focused so much on their bodies. The idea that ballet and bull fighting, though very different, are both associated with “fine arts” as they are not really considered sports seemed captivating to me.
ReplyDeleteI also thought his use of flashbacks were very efficient in the film which kept me thinking a lot. Not only the flashbacks but the titles that would pop up on the screen in Spanish that would list the characters speaking in each scene seemed odd. This especially had me thinking when puzzling together the rape of Alicia giving it that kind of “whodunit” aspect. Even though Benigno is the first person everyone points their finger at to blame for the rape, the question is still up in the air. It seemed fitting though as Benigno was always the one around Alicia but just seemed unexpected because we are convinced that Benigno is such a nice character. However it wasn’t until after the film that I began to question if it really was him who did it.
The storyline also reminded me of a strange Romeo and Juliet in the sense that the two unrequited lovers were following mostly the story of Benigno and Alicia after Marco finds out that Lydia had cheated on him a month before. Once Benigno decides that he wants “to be with Alicia” and resorts to killing himself with an overdose, (just as Romeo does when he realizes he can’t live without Juliet) Alicia miraculously wakes up from her coma which gave me goosebumps. Nonetheless, this film was full of surprises and I liked going into it without having known anything about it beforehand.
“Talk to Her” is mainly taking about how to “ talking” between people, which means communications between main characters. Two female characters and male characters direct the film’s theme. Those two female characters are all in comas and two men have been friends due to their similar situations. Macro and Benigno are all taking care of their lover in hospital, but the manners they use to communicate are totally different. Benigno is a very considerate man who is taking very good care of Alicia. He believes that Alicia has feeling about what he is talking about, so he will go to movie and tell Alicia the film’s story. In contrast, Macro doesn’t think that Lydia will have feeling or known what he has been doing for her. Benihno always cleans Alicia’s body and makes her as pretty as before. He loves her and just wants to be with her, that’s the reason way he becomes a nurse.
ReplyDeleteI especially love the ending of this film, because the ending is connecting with the opening. All of them are showing us the beautiful dancing. There is a last scene, Macro slowly looks back, and he is looking at Alicia’s smiling face. Actually, I think that Macro is admiring Benigno’s effort, because he is seeing Benigno’s lover --Alicia has been a normal woman that is healthy and pretty. He finally knows that Benigno is right, vegetative can hear and feel. Macro regrets that he has not told Benigno about Alicia’s good news. Although Benigno is dead, (he is in jail, because he rapes Alicia in hospital) when we see Alicia’s smiling face, we will also see Benigno’s selfless dedication. Love is selfless, but, sometime, it is never fair.
"Talk to Her," a film about love, is also a story about loneness and communication.
ReplyDeleteThe main theme of the film is to"Talk". The actors are outstanding, illuminating two males and two females with different views on loneliness. From the beginning of the film, Almodóvar presents the audience Enduring’s loneness. Macro and Benigno set together watching the ballet. They are touched by the film with tears. They even become good friends in the rest of the film. Benigno has an introverted personality, geniality, no good social skills with few friends, but he is very eager to love someone. After he sees Alicia after him mother's house window, he cannot stop missing her. He even becomes a personal nurse after Alicia in a coma due to a car accident. He talks to her, moves slowly and gently; his honeyed voice is part of physicality, going along with his meticulous and deliberate movement. In contrast, Macro also has a girlfriend, Lydia, a bullfighter. An accident on the bullring made her in a coma. Macro does not talk to Lydia. He does not even want to touch Lydia's body. However, the real communication does not need Talk, but from the heart of love. Alicia wakes up due to Benigno's love, but Alicia knows nothing about Benigno. Love is ultimately alone because we cannot always find prefect time for prefect man or woman.
In Talk to Her, I have seen there is a black and white silent film inside, Shrinking Man. In this seven minute love story without language, a little man finally gets into the girl's body, dovoting his life to her. This is my favorite part. Lastly, Alicia wakes up and meets Macro in a theatre. Love is like a religion, but madly Talk to Her’s every minute is paranoid, which is more like a religious ritual of sweet. When we see Alicia's and Macro's smiling faces, there is new possible explosion imaging between Alicia and Macro.
I can’t decide whether I liked the movie or not. I liked the narrative, as it was unique and innovative. However, the movie was pretty slow, and the camera angles and shot sizes lacked variation. Somehow I was bored and excited at the same time. This is sad, because, as I said before, the narrative is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThe love story about two men towards a girl lying in a coma is a complicated situation. Benigno fell deeply in love with Alicia, whom he stalked before she had an accident and fell into a coma. Ironically, he ended up as her nurse who takes care of her all the time. I felt uncomfortable when he was massaging her naked legs or cleaning her vagina as I knew his obsession with her. I had the strange feeling that something would happen.
However, on the other side is Marco, who lost his girlfriend who was lying in a coma and who cheated on him just before. This is a strong contrast to Benigno’s love story; but, it’s sad, too, as Marco tried to get comfortable with the difficult hospital situation. I liked that both men were different characters and that Marco, the logical and realistic person, could be described as the antagonist from Benigno, who is living in his fantasies and believes in wonders. I wondered why the friendship ended up this close as Marco is quite different from Benigno. This was unexpected, as well as the sudden rape of Alicia. One does not get to know if Benigno raped her but if so, it does not fit the image of him. It was a surprise for me as he seemed like to be crazy stalker; but, he could never hurt Alicia. Although, maybe he thought she is OK with it, it does not make any sense why he waited to have sex with her so long. The short, silent movie he talked about to Alicia once, had a sexual theme (the man stays in the vagina of his beloved fiancé forever). However, I would never interpret it in the sexual way. Only literally, that he will stay with her forever, or he will die as he did in the end. I think the rape situation should create suspense to produce more variation which was lacked by the camera work and presentation. However, as it did not make any sense for me, no suspense and variation were created and, therefore, the movie was too long and bored me in the end. That is a shame as I liked the narration so much!
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ReplyDelete"Talk to Her" by Pedro Almodovar is about the relationship that two men, Marco and Benigno, have towards two comatose women, Lydia and Alicia. It is a very interesting movie because the two men become desperately in love with these women despite having not been in a serious relationship with them before they were unconscious. Somehow through taking care of these two people both Marco and Benigno become infatuated with them and create impossible fantasies about them in their heads. These fantasies end up destroying these two men, as Benigno is accused of raping Alicia and Marco exiles himself and then hears that Lydia never came out her coma and has died. There are several hints throughout the movie that this will happen, including the bizarre short film about the Shrinking Man which represents Benigno's sexual desire towards Alicia. The fact that Marco brings Lydia outside and dresses her up as if she is a conscious person shows that he has become a little delusional about her, even though he always tries to appear rational. Marco is an interesting character in that he always tries to appear rational while crying at the strangest times. Almodovar seems to be trying to reverse the male/female stereotype with the character of Marco, as he acts more effeminate and Lydia, his "girlfriend" definitely acts more stereotypically masculine while she is conscious in this film. Overall, while this was not my favorite film it was a unique take on relationships and asks the moral question of where the line is between caring about someone and actually trying to take advantage of that person really is.
Almodovar's "Talk to Her" is a story of intertwined, unconventional relationships. Marco and Benigno bond over the difficulty of having their significant other in a comatose state. Marco's girlfriend, Lydia, was involved in a bull fighting accident resulting in a severe brain injury and coma. He spends as much time as possible in the hospital with her, and soon meets Benigno, a male nurse who is obsessively in love with his patient, Alicia. They share their stories with one another and their feelings for their unconscious significant other. Unlike Marco, Benigno never had an actual relationship with his love interest, and begins to fantasize about it. He soon convinces himself that Alicia has developed feelings for him as well, even though she is unconscious. He confides in Marco and tells him his plans of marrying Alicia. Instead of being disturbed and ending their friendship, he immediately becomes protective and warns him to tell no one else of these feelings and explains that Alicia cannot give consent for the marriage. Benigno keeps this plan a secret, but after sharing these feelings with Marco, his love becomes unbearable. Later, Marco discovers that before her coma, Lydia had plans of rekindling her relationship with her ex husband and decides to take time away from the hospital to focus on his writing. After several months of being away, he learns that Lydia had passed away. Marco immediately calls the hospital to talk to Benigno, however is shocked and upset to hear that Benigno has been arrested for raping and impregnating Alicia. He immediately travels home to Spain, visits Benigno, finds him a better lawyer, and moves into his apartment all in order to support him. Benigno tells Marco that he has fantasies of traveling with him and all he wants is to simply hug Marco. Marco responds by pressing his hand against the glass barrier, and Benigno does the same. Though Benigno begs for updates, Marco is told not to inform him that as a result of the pregnancy, Alicia has woken from her coma but the fetus was born dead. One morning, Marco receives a voicemail from Benigno saying that he’s escaped. After rushing to the jail, Marco learns that he’d taken a massive amount of pills in attempt to enter a coma so Marco will take care of him just as he had taken care of Alicia. However, the pills ended up killing Benigno, and Marco is left heartbroken. Though "Talk to Her" is definitely not my favorite Almodovar movie, I was particularly moved by the very unconventional relationships and the shocking, unpredictable events. Benigno's love for Alicia brought out very uncomfortable, yet empathetic emotions in me: though some of his actions (stalking, watching, raping) nearly made me sick, I couldn't help but feel for him. Benigno obviously had some serious emotional and social issues which made it impossible for him to understand that Alicia had not developed feelings for him during her coma. I applaud Almodovar for taking a risk with such an experimental story line and for bringing out unexplainable emotions to his audience.
ReplyDeleteThe film Talk to Her was extremely disturbing. Early on in the film, Benigno came off as an innocent caretaker who deeply cared about the well-being of his patient. However it soon became apparent that he was much to intimate with her. The patient’s father even asked him what his sexual orientation was. As the film progressed, I was even more disturbed to learn that Benigno had been obsessed with Alicia since before she was ever even a patient. He would watch her dance and began to stalk her. Not long after he finally spoke to her, she got in the car accident that put her in a coma, which makes me wonder whether or not Benigno had something to do with her accident.
ReplyDeleteClearly Benigno was delusional. I think he definitely had psychological problems before caring for Alicia, but constantly caring for someone that is alive yet not conscious must have also driven him a little crazier. After so many years of talking to someone with no response, his imagination must have gone on and he dreamt that she could respond and they had an ongoing relationship. He would even speak on her behalf occasionally. I think he meant well and didn’t want to hurt her. I also think he truly believed that they had a relationship and were in love and should get married. In his head, this justified raping her unconscious body. Although he didn’t see a problem with doing this, he was sane enough to know that others would clearly think it was wrong, and therefore he kept it a secret. Marco is the only friend that he confides in with certain things, such as the fact that he wants to marry Alicia. Overall it was a depressing film but had a lot of meaning.
Talk to her is a Spanish Drama that shows how difficult it is to communicate with your couple; it shows intimacy and loneliness. This is a film about two women in a coma and the men who love them. It is an expressionist film showing the theater that Pedro Almodovar had in mind. I believe that it is a very original and mysterious movie. This melodrama uses many flashbacks, jumping from the present to the past and so on to tell each character’s story. These flashbacks reveal many details about the movie. For example, we learn that Benigno had discovered Alicia from before she was in a coma. Nevertheless, I find it disgusting that Benigno raped or had sex with this woman in a coma; I do not believe that “being in love” is a justification for this act. I liked the funny episode that involves the female body with a great deal of creative liberty. I did not like the character of Marcos since he was always sad and nervous. I believe that the female nudity shown in this film should not be taken as erotic since the woman is in coma and it is just disrespectful. At the beginning it was hard for me to get interested in it but I ended up enjoying it. I believe that this movie follows and shows into human obsession. This movie is all about exploring the behavior undertaken by women to shield themselves from emotional fragility. It strictly suggests that humans are contradictory and questions devotion, as the men want inaccessible women. Nevertheless, I believe that Almodovar was quite unambiguous sometimes and had many unanswered questions as if he wanted the audience to reflect on them. This movie combines both comedy and sensuality.
ReplyDeleteI usually consider a film to be great if, upon first viewing, I am profoundly emotionally moved. Talk to Her did just that. I am not exaggerating in saying that it is one of the saddest films I have ever seen. Every character mattered and each of their lives was filled with loneliness and sorrow. However, Talk to Her never succumbs to melodrama. Instead, Talk to Her is an art film that experiments with the conventional narrative structure. As the main narrative progresses, Talk to Her takes minor but important detours into the pasts of the main characters. This structure allows the audience to formulate initial appraisals of the characters that will either stand or fall in light of new background information. This is most poignant with Benigno. Benigno is first presented as a caring nurse, then as a loving voyeur, and finally as a rapist. Because of the way Almodovar formulated the film (e.g. depicting the rape scene through a clever metaphor) we are equally as likely to hate Benigno, empathize with him, or both. Likewise, Lydia is first presented as an important love interest of Marco, but a flashback reveals her to be an enigmatic woman who, much like Marco cannot get over her past relationship. Her death was surprisingly uneventful. Talk to Her expresses how certain people may fortuitously enter one’s life and affect us deeply, and then just as quickly vanish. Relationships, a big theme in the film, are ephemeral, and change just as quickly as one may change partners in a Spanish dance. This is not to say, however, that people are expendable. Every character in the film permanently altered each other’s lives. Without Benigno, for example, Marco may never have recovered from his troubled past relationship – he may never have met Alicia.
ReplyDeleteThe Almodovar film "Talk to Her" was interesting, but also an odd film for me and not one I would watch on my own, if not for this course. I am not sure how to categorize the film. It began as a sad tale with Benigno and Marco in the theater, viewing the actors in a sort of death dance. I felt as though the dancers were either dead or like Alicia, in a comatose state, which caused Marco to weep. Then we realized we weren't dealing with a person who was sound mentally, with Benigno. The story became more sordid, as Benigno seems to have no mind or interests of his own, and we see that he only attends theatrical performances for Alicia, who is in a coma. At first it seems sweet, then we start to peel back the layers of Benigno and notice a more sinister core. I began to feel disturbed when Benigno talked to Alicia as though she was answering and when he became too intimate with the the touching of her body. When we find out Benigno has raped Alicia, it makes you feel ill to imagine a medical personnel and patient confidentiality being so abused. However, I found that with the short story/silent film that Almodovar chose to insert, it did lessen the shock for the viewer. I believe that he did this so the audience would not completely turn their backs on Benigno and so we would maybe even hope for his reform. The story with Marco and the bull-fighter served no real purpose for me, except to get Marco into the hospital with Benigno. Also the wedding out in the middle of nowhere, was also very random for me. I do feel that Almodovar is very talented, it is just that I prefer one of his films like Volver.
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ReplyDeleteTalk to Her was a great film that we watched in class. Narrative-wise, it was very quirky and awkward. The whole rape of the vagina scene was weird, as was the opening scene of the film. Overall, once I got past these strange scenes, I really enjoyed the movie. I especially liked that the movie took a look at occasional lapses in the trust between patient and caretaker, namely sexual lapses. I feel that the issue is seldom explained in movies. Additionally, the love story genre takes an interesting turn in this movie, with deviant views on what love means and between whom it may take place. Additionally, the style of the movie masterfully utilizes flashback scenes, as well as intertextuality. They both really complement the events that unfolded over the course of the movie. Moreover, the way in which the film was divided, with hovering subtitles that indicated which "chapter" of the story was to begin, helped progress the course of the film at a maintainable pace. Finally, the use of closeup shots masterfully helped focus the spotlight of the film on the characters themselves. The setting hardly matters, and neither does the music. The full focus falls upon the characters, their words, their motives, and their emotions.
ReplyDeleteTalk to Her was a great film. It was beautifully shot and had high entertainment value as well. This movie was rich in plot and character development. The movie opens with a very interesting sequence in a strange "sleep walk" dance. This sequence was a very good way to open the movie and provides foreshadowing for the film. The opening dance features two women dancing while apparently sleeping, and a man trying to guide one of the women in their dance. I believe the man is representative of Benigno, who spends his entire movie guiding Alicia through her coma. I thought the other woman to be Lydia. Through Lydia's coma, Benigno did a lot more to help her than Marco did. At some point in the movie, Marco and Benigno can be seen as the man and first woman interchangeably as they both help each other at various points in the movie. I really enjoyed watching the plot unfold in this movie, and seeing everything come together in the end was a joy to watch.
ReplyDeleteThe movie Talk to Her has a plot that centers on a male nurse, Benigno (Javier Cámara), and his love for a comatose patient that he cares for, Alicia (Leonor Watling). He befriends a man named Marco (Darío Grandinetti) because the love of his life was put in a coma due to a horrible bull-fighting accident. The film has a very clear message on the idea of love and what is accepted in society, but also has an underlying theme of friendship that is shown through filmmaking techniques. Talk to Her uses specific camera work and character placement, as well as different cutting techniques to subtly show and exaggerate the bond between the characters Benigno and Marco, a prime example of a platonic love two men can have. Talk To Her is a movie that shows how an unhealthy obsession can cause a man to do horrible things that do not necessarily fit his personality. Nevertheless, through the editing techniques of character placement, camera angles, and cutting techniques, the movie subtly shows the beauty of a male bond. The director uses the positioning of Benigno in scenes with Alicia to show his love of her. However, the placement of Benigno is changed when Marco is in the scene to emphasize importance of them being together. In addition, the quick cutting techniques in the dialogue between Marco and Benigo show how their conversations are different than anyone else in the movie. Talk to Her shows through indirect techniques that the bond between two men can be stronger than most people realize.
ReplyDeleteWhat most impressed me about “Talk to Her” was how the writer and director, Pedro Almodovar wove together fragments to create a cohesive work of art. He not only worked with fragments from the story but included other forms of media such as song, dance and silent film. By doing this he imbued the film with more emotion than a simple, straightforward narrative would allow. It also allowed him to more delicately and abstractly address the disturbing subject matter.
ReplyDeleteTo be blunt, “Talk to Her” is about two men in love with a human vegetable. One of these men, Benigno, a troubled but well-meaning nurse, acts on his desires. He impregnates his patient, Alicia. The fact that Almodovar managed to make this the basis of an endearing love story, is a testament to his talent as a filmmaker. It is easy to make a love story about two single twenty somethings in New York City. It is not so easy to make a love story about a male nurse and a vegetable. I only wish more filmmaker’s would take the risks Almovodar did. “Talk to Her” opened my eyes to the fact that it is possible to present non-traditional subject matter in a non-traditional way and have a more profound emotional impact than any more mainstream film I’ve seen in a while.
I'm not too familiar with Spanish films, but Talk To Her captivated me in the most inexplicable ways. Almodovar left quite an impression on me and I really look forward to seeing more of his work. Societal norms essentially make Benigno a neurotic, almost sickening character whose actions might make us hate him. I loved his innocent approach and his genuine love for Alicia and that's what made me forgive him so easily. Sure, he creeped me out a few times, but his character just felt so sincere that it was almost impossible not to overlook the reality of his actions. I also appreciated Mario's trusting nature and how easily he vowed to help Benigno during his imprisonment. Each character in the film represents a different side of humanity and they all blend so harmonically and so naturally. Almodovar's depiction of the relevance in Alicia's very being, even though she spends most of the film comatose is both admirable and surprising.
ReplyDeleteI definitely feel like Talk To Her is a masterpiece in and of itself. I've never seen a film quite as moving and I can only hope that it inspires others as much as it did me.
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ReplyDeleteTalk To Her is an Oscar winning movie directed by Pedro Almodòvar published in 2002. The story is about two men both in a similar, tragic situation, where both of their beloveds are in deep coma. For the main character Marco (Darìo Grandinetti) however, the movie shows his relationship with Lydia (Rosario Flores) before she falls into coma. I believe that the movie is very well directed. Examples are many, but Almodòvar often uses colors to express the different characters. Furthermore, he is also very good at expressing feelings throughout the movie, as feelings are very much a major part of the movie. I really liked the movie, even though I don’t always fancy movies that require you to read the subtitles. This movie explicitly shows the themes of loneliness and connection between the different couples. The fact that these women are in coma and the men are always besides them is beautiful. Nevertheless, the director also has different methods that make the movie unorthodox, as the scene where the man enters the vagina and maybe the beginning ballet scene, which may confuse you a bit. But all in all, I would recommend other to see talk to her because it is very different from other movies.
There is a lot to discuss about Talk to Her, as it explores many different film strategies that allude to it being a powerful expressionist film about loneliness and connection. However, what I find to be the most defiant, and interesting element of the film to be is the abstraction scene. The use of an abstraction scene is necessary for us to understand the character Benigno's motives and alarming actions, that is his raping of unconscious Alicia. Director Almodovar implements "frame within a frame" with the silent movie Shrinking Lover. Benigno doesn't think he did anything wrong, bu tin the back of his mind he knows it is. By showing the Shrinking Lover we see it how Benigno sees it, that he does it out of love. The abstract scene is necessary because we find his actions so disturbing that there needs to be a way the audience needs a way to feel empathetic in order to in one way or another rationalize his actions. Another abstraction of the rape scene Almodovar made was the cut away to the the lava lamp. I believe he did this because like the situation, a lava lamp is absurd and strange, yet we accept it for what it is.
ReplyDeleteI am not very fluent in Spanish films, but Talk to Her was definitely not one of my favorite films. The theme of loneliness and desperation was somewhat intriguing and interesting to me, but the overall character personalities and types didn't do the film justice. I feel that the fact that I came to dislike Benigno's character so much took away from me enjoying and really being able to analyze the film as a whole. I was very stuck on how much he seemed to just be a creepy, selfish man and how we were supposed to think his actions were out of love but this distracted me even further. His actions were all I could see and I couldn't get past them. I was also aware of the film's attempts to make us feel for Benigno in a way and to think it was out of love, but I couldn't bring myself to see it this way and was honestly only worried about the characters making me feel uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteThe auditorium for the concert, the young the male nursing Shibeininuo and middle-aged writer Mark happened to sit together. The two never met the man at the same time moved for some beautiful music. Bei Ninuo see tears from the eyes of Mark and his own at the moment has also been moved to an upsurge of it hard, he knew that the provisional seat of the man himself has a kind heart. Short-term interoperability of the mind, Bei Ninuo did not expect and will continue to encounter this kind-hearted people, and is met in the clinic work.
ReplyDeleteBei Ninuo and marks of age and identity, the lover of the two know each other, but their situation is so similar. The Bei Ninuo's girlfriend, Alicia, is a ballet student, the moment she was lying in bed clinic Bei Ninuo where. Mark's girlfriend, Lydia, is a professional bullfighter, she was injured at work, lying on the clinic. The same happened to make two so to get to know. Marks every time after Alicia's ward, see Bei Ninuo Alicia in softly tell.
They are two different people, face the same situation, the feelings of their heart different from each other. Beini Nuo heart was very happy, because he can from a loved one so close, more importantly, he was sure she could hear him, can understand and share his love. But Mark always feel very sad and depressed because he could not communicate with their loved ones, but do not know her heart in mind. Bei Ninuo told Mark to speak against the coma patient is a kind of therapy, even though she can not answer, do not know what you are talking, but also insisted that it, thus allowing early resumption of the patient. Common experiences and encounters psychological idea of different men closer together, Mark in Bei Ninuo's under the influence of gradual changes, the friendship between the two is also the continuation ...
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ReplyDeleteI actually saw this film some time ago also back in Mexico, and I did not like it very much to be honest. But now that I saw it again I was able to appreciate it a little bit more. Besides, it is in Spanish and I am a native Spanish speaker so it was obviously more comfortable, although subtitles kind of drifted my attention away. When I think about it, two men falling in love with two women that are in coma is a very unusual situation. To me it was kind of weird Lydia’s profession. When the viewer is informed about Benigno sexually abusing Alicia, it really made me sick. I just do not really understand why Almodovar would portray such an event in a film, which is something I personally found disturbing. A theme that became more than evident and very important in the film was the one of loneliness, particularly with Benigno who lives by himself in an apartment. I noticed something interesting too, which relates to Benigno’s name. Benigno in Spanish means something good, benign, gentle; and in the film he lives up to his name with the exception of that sexual incidence, he is a nurse who has been taking care of people, like his mother and then Alicia. I also found interesting how Almodovar managed to get two completely different people to get along, Marco who is very masculine and like a tough guy, and Benigno who is the exact opposite, ‘sweet’, sensitive and with girl-like attributes.
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ReplyDeleteI found Talk to Her to be a rather odd movie. At first I didn’t really like it, the plot seemed to jump around, the film felt somehow dirty, and Lydia’s nose was quite distracting. However, the movie grew on me as I continued watching, and over time I became interested in the story shown on the screen, in the lives of the characters and their interactions with one another. Benigno’s innocence and Marco’s harder, more realistic view of the world make for an interesting dynamic and an interesting film.
In spite of Benigno’s rape of Alicia, the audience is encouraged to continue to empathize with him, as evidenced by the filmmaker’s decision to not explicitly show the rape and the rather soft manner in which it is dealt with for the rest of the movie. In spite of his shortcomings, the audience is heartbroken when it is revealed that Benigno has committed suicide because he believes that his comatose love has died.
While beginning in a rather odd manner, Talk to Her develops into a powerful drama that pulls viewers into the story and keeps them in their seats until the very end.
Normally I am the type of person who only enjoys comedies and other films that bring good vibes and have a happy mood, so as a result, Talk to Her was not one of my favorite films that we have watched thus far in this class. The movie is about a man named Benigno who has a strong love for a helpless victim of a terrible bull fighting accident named Alicia. Alicia will never be the same again and seems to be a vegetable because of extensive injuries. The physical state of Alicia will not prevent Benigno from showing his true love for her. However, this isn't any ordinary love story. Benigno takes advantage of Alicia, who is in a coma, and impregnates her through rape. This scene is extremely disturbing and isn't the type of scene I like to see in movies, and on top of this, Benigno commits suicide in the end because he thinks that his beloved Alicia has died. I really didn't like Benigno's character in the movie and it took away from the enjoyment of the film in a way.
ReplyDeleteThe director, Almodovar, uses many interesting directing techniques in the movie however. He uses quick cutting techniques between conversations and is able to enhance the relationships between the characters solely through his directing techniques.
Going in to see Talk to Her, I was not positive I would enjoy the film. However, by the end of it, I was able to appreciate what the film was trying to convey. It’s not one of my favorite movies we have viewed this semester, but I did enjoy watching it. The film was written and directed by Pedro Almodovar, who has a unique and interesting style. The film consists of two men, Benigno and Marco, who become friends while taking care of women in comas, Alicia and Lydia. While taking care of these two women, the men become infatuated and have deep fantasies about them inside their heads. Through this, we see loneliness and intimacy as two major, reoccurring themes in the narrative.
ReplyDeleteThe film studies the past, present and future and utilizes flashbacks to tell the narrative. Furthermore, Almodovar uses different colors to express different people in the film. Comparable to some other movies we have seen, Almodovar utilizes the film within a film technique. Inside Talk to Her, there is a short black and white silent film, The Shrinking Lover. It’s about a man who shrinks and goes into his lover’s vagina to be with her forever. It was a very unique attachment to the story, which depicts the style of Almodovar. Overall, I do not believe this film is for everybody, but I would recommend for people to watch this film or any other Almodovar film for that matter.
Talk to Her by Pedro Almodvar showed the difficulty of communication amongst males and females, lonliness, intimacy, and the persistence of lve beyond lost. This film will captivate you. Almodovar created a dramatic space for us to dwell in, and knocks any preconceived notions of morality and certainty out of his twisted world, and carries us along into it.It was one of the most emotional touching movies I have ever seen. The film collides together with two storylines in a perfect setting. Definitely worth watching again. The music was amazing; beautiful cinematography, great rhythm. And the actors were amazing!
ReplyDeleteI truly enjoyed the film, Talk to Her, by Pedro Almodovar. I think the story line flowed very smoothly and was a creative, refreshing, although psychotic idea. Almodovar is very clever in saying what he needs and/or wants to say, without actually filming it. The best example of this is when Benigno rapes Alicia. Instead of showing an actual rape scene, Almodovar has Benigno go to a silent film (something he learned Alicia loved to do before she went into a coma) and then talk to Alicia what he saw. The silent film ultimate has a man shrinking down small enough to fit into his lovers vagina and pleasures her – which is a metaphor for Benigno taking advantage of Alicia.
ReplyDeleteI like that with Alicia’s miscarriage of the baby, she awoke from a coma. This gives the message that with death comes rebirth – although it would be a natural cycle of events for a mother to die before her child, it still portrays the same idea. The same is true of Benino’s rape, imprisonment, and ultimate suicide, which means he loses Alicia for ever. At the same time though, the ending implies that Marco can start a new relationship and life with Alicia since both Lydia and Benigno have passed away.
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I had two initial reactions to Almodovar’s “Talk to Her. “ My first reaction was that I enjoyed the devotion that Benigno and Marco have for Alicia and Lydia. There is a sort of forbidden love because of their loves being in the hospital. Even though this love is forbidden, to me, it seemed very selfless of the two men. While I enjoyed this sort of selfless love Marco and Benigno’s constant care for their two women became a little bit creepy in my opinion. I felt this way more about Benigno than Marco because I can understand that Marco has some sort of guilt causing Lydia’s accident with the bull. Benigno on the other hand really struck me a sort of creep because he hardly knows Alicia. When he views her dancing from his apartment while Alicia is practicing dancing toes a fine line that seems a little bit creepy, but when Benigno obsessively start caring for Alicia is when his character crossed the strange line for me. The men seem to have no life outside to tending to Alicia and Lydia, but when I began to enjoy the movie more was when the two men become friends. Their unusual friendship was a highlight for me and I enjoyed the connection they shared through their odd similarity.
ReplyDeleteSome might disagree with me but I was not a fan of Talk to Her. I understand that Benigno felt passionate about his love for the dancer Alicia but he only knew her through watching her dance. When Alicia ends up in a coma after a car accident, Benigno, a nurse at that hospital ends up taking care of her. Benigno and Marco, a journalist, bond during a dance recital. Benigno and Marco are reunited when Marco is in the hospital visiting a woman named Lydia. Lydia was a bull fighter who was injured during a fight, and is also in a coma. Benigno and Marco have strong emotions for Alicia and Lydia but they handle themselves differently. Benigno becomes so obsessive of his patient while Marco maintains his masculinity. I like how Almodovar did not outright show a rape scene but the fact that he is conveying a character raping a woman in a coma, is hard for me to not feel disgusted. I understand Benigno really did love Alicia but he has mental issues and this did not need to happen.
ReplyDeleteThis is by far my favorite movie of all the movies we have seen in class. First of all, since the first time I saw an Almodovar film (I cannot remember which one was it) I feel in love with the way he does his job. The plot of this movie is so captivating and interesting that is hard to take your eyes of off the screen, even for a brief second.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed watching the main characters watching a movie right next to each other. From that scene (where they were strangers to each other), you can almost begin to really know the personality of both, Benigno and Marco. Another thing that I noticed that is really interesting, and since Spanish is my native language, is the name choices of the characters. Beningno means benign, gentle, kind. And Marco means frame, a rigid structure that surrounds or frames something. For me, these names, in just one word, describe the most general characteristic of each character.
When Benigno is fired and goes to prison for “raping” Alicia is heartbreaking. He is really naïve and innocent, and he really thinks that he is in a relationship with his beloved Alicia. He takes such good care of her, and dedicates his whole life to that girl. And clearly, he is not psychologically well.
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ReplyDeleteThis was the first Almodóvar film that I have seen, and after watching this film I truly appreciate his story-telling prowess. This narrative and the short clips we saw in class from Bad Education have an incredible ability to draw you in. I was enamored and engaged with this film from the first scene. The dance at first was perplexing. I was not aware of that art and the intertextual importance of it, but seeing the two main characters’ reactions and Benigno’s narration I was drawn into the story of his character and then later on the various expressed relationships throughout the film. I loved the use of bright colors. It felt thoroughly Spanish and for me it added to the appeal of wanting to visit Spain. The themes of relationships that are connected and broken throughout the film along with the sort of innocence and ignorance of Benigno were very complexly depicted. Coming away from the movie I wasn’t fully able to come to an opinion of Benigno. Is he a truly bad person for what he did, or does his innocence and deep mental problems just make you sympathetic towards him? I don’t know, and if that was the point, well than that was very well done. This was thoroughly engaging, but it left me feeling a bit anguished. It is as if the story didn’t go the way I planned and hoped it would. I have been so used to films with definable characters that could be marked as either good or bad, but here it’s hard to say. Did Marco even display the sort of machismo you would expect from a male protagonist? In some sense yes, but in another maybe not so much. This film explores characters and stories that reside in the shades of grey or in the middle of the spectrum, and I truly appreciate that. It’s nice to see these films that challenge your expectations and established perspective.
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ReplyDeleteHaving never seen an Almodovar film, I was not sure what to expect. However, having seen this film, I can really appreciate his ability to instantly capture the audience's attention and really tell a beautiful story. The movie opens with ballet dancing before panning back and revealing that we are watching people watching a movie. While this ballet film seemed out of place for a while, it came together in the end. This was especially the case after our class discussion, where it was suggested that each of the dancers represents a character in the film.
Even though the movie was in Spanish, I was still about to connect with the characters through their facial expressions and the available subtitles. The fact that this was a foreign film did give it an entirely different feel and style to it. The bright colors and the set locations also helped add to that.
In terms of the individual characters, I found that I was able to connect with Benigno the most. I felt that I was able to understand his love and devotion for Alicia and this kept me from writing him off as a truly horrible person for raping her. While I was stunned and horrified by his actions, I think it was more a moment of desperation than anything. That he came to the realization that he may never get the chance to be with her if she gets better and leaves the hospital, and that that drove him to do what he did.
Overall, I really enjoyed this movie and would definitely watch another of Almodovar's films.
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ReplyDeleteIn regards to Talk To Her, suffice it to say, I was not exactly thrilled. The opening dance scene, for example, may have fit with the story in various ways, but the dance itself was just the taddest bit off-putting. I feel that the fact that the dance right away made me wonder what the Hell was going on within that specific dance performance was hurtful to my first impressions of the film right off the bat in that it already had caused a little bit more judgment to creep in there than what you should go into a movie with. I am not saying that it did not work with the film, just that it was an interesting way to start off.
In regards to the film as a whole, I am not quite sure how I feel about it - the story itself is not exactly my cup of tea - a dude raping a hospitalized coma woman - not something I would pay to see - but at the same time, I can appreciate that the filmmakers are possibly trying to get specific messages across, again, messages potentially blocked by judgments that come up as a result of the basic, bare-bones storyline or main plot throughout the film. Independent character studies and smaller more in-depth films are nice every once in a while, but I find they have to appeal to me in a certain or major way, otherwise, there is every possibility I will merely end up either bored or repulsed, depending on the subject matter and how it is handled, and whether or not the film itself is even good, which increases the potential for the completely wrong kind of judgment of a film.
In Talk to Her, I found myself connected to Marco yet not to Benigno. Benigno’s situation of being obsessed with a women who ironically lands in the same hospital as him, thus causing Benigno to care for then rape the woman makes me have sympathy for this man yet leaves me disconnected to the character. Marco gave me a character that was a lot like Benigno, innocent with good intentions, yet didn’t go as far as Benigno and cross the line I feel he crosses. The rape scene is brilliantly set up and instead of “creeping the audience out” the sort film placed in-between the sequence entitled “The Shrinking Man” creates this humorous image.
ReplyDeleteWhat threw me off from the entire film, causing me to go in and out of the movie, was that there were no sub-plot and nothing else going on in the film. This is true for a narrative style and sticking to a beginning to climax and falling action, but I found that style to be dull. Or perhaps if I had a stronger connection to Benigno I would have wanted him to succeed. Sadly my connection with him on a level was lost, taking me away from the story and leaving me not pleased with what I saw.
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ReplyDeletePedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her is a moving and troubling film, but I have not found it easy to say clearly just what is so moving about it in a larger perspective. Of course, the most disturbing action of the story is plain. One of the two chief male characters, the hospital nurse Benigno, rapes a comatose young woman, Alicia, a woman who is under his professional care. The rape is shocking enough, but the fact that the victim is completely unconscious and helpless can seem to make the violation even worse. What is almost unethical is the fact that the movie treats Benigno as a largely sympathetic character. It is arguable in the way that the story is depicted as it allows us to avoid confronting fully and seriously what Benigno has done to Alicia. For me, it took a while to get around this fact, as I was thrown off by it. We are also not directly shown the rape or any part of it. Instead, the rape is implicitly indicated on screen by an odd collision of abstract shapes. This was certainly an interesting way of portraying what is the most important scene of the film. When it comes down to it, I was a bit rattled by this film and not in a way that would make me like it or make me want to see it again. In other words, I did not love or hate it.
This film was very interesting to me, but I'm not certain that it was interesting in a good way. First off, the dance scene to open the movie kind of turned me off right from the beginning. While I would agree that it did fit the movie, and it did succeed in catching my attention, I was not a fan of it to start the film. Next, the story line was actually somewhat interesting, but the fact that the man raped a woman in a coma was a little too much for me. This made me question whether he was simply desperate and needed to do it for comfort, or whether he was simply kind of crazy. This film was very aesthetically pleasing with its vibrant, bright colors. The colors definitely kept my eyes on the screen and created a happier feel to the movie even though scenes such as the rape were somewhat disturbing. This film was not my favorite but it definitely wasn't my least favorite either. While I can't say I really liked it, I can say that it was interesting and it held my attention throughout.
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The film entitled, “Talk To her” which was directed by Pedro Almodóvar, is an interesting story of how two similar situations with complete strangers, can bring those who are involved together. Benigno, who is a male nurse, has an apartment that oversees the dancing studio where classes are taught by Alicia teaches. As creepy as it may sound, without even meeting her, Benigno falls head over heels in love with her. As the movie plays on, we see as Alicia endures a terrible car crash which lands her in the hospital in a Coma, the hospital is that of which Benigno resides as a Nurse. Realizing this, he now sees his opportunity to comfort his love and be there for her even if she doesn’t know for sure who he is or that he is even there. Similarly, a bull injured a popular Bullfighter named Lydia, during one of her matches and this lands her in the same hospital, even in the same Coma Wing as Alicia. Marco, who is a journalist who had interviewed Alicia shortly before her match, blames himself for her getting hurt. The two men, Benigno and Marco begin to bond, which in my opinion was a very interesting scenario. Two men, who have remorse and who share love for the patient, becoming friends, I personally wouldn’t have seen that coming, especially in the wing of a hospital. Overall, this film kept you on your toes and as you watched it, the more you hoped for the two couples to work together for a future.
The movie Talk to Her shows how powerful a human relationship can be. From the start of the movie, many relationships are established including that of a male nurse and a comatose patient. Of course the coma patient does not know she is in this relationship but the nurse creates one with her anyway, treasuring her presence more than anything. There is also a relationship established between the two male characters in the movie, the male nurse and a man that has had his girlfriend slip into a coma as well. The movie seems to establish itself as a movie about the women in the comas and how the men treat them while they are in the hospital. Lydia and Alicia are shown as opposites in the movie. Alicia transitions from being completely unable to take care of herself in a coma to starting a new relationship with the man that once loved and was betrayed by Lydia. In contrast, Lydia is shown as going through the change of being a strong and powerful bullfighter to ending her life in a coma without being able to say goodbye to the ones she loved. The importance of these women and the grace of the human body are shown all throughout the movie Talk to Her. In many scenes, there is an emphasis placed on the human body to convey how fragile life is and how quickly it can change. There is a direct relationship between the two women and how their differing lives interact and completely change directions shown through how their bodies are highlighted in the movie.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, there is also a huge underlying theme of friendship that is established very quickly in the movie, even though it is not as obvious as the relationships between the men and the women in the movie. Overall, this movie was extremely interesting and had a unique plot line that took the audience all over the place with many twists and turns.
Alexandra Ball
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ReplyDeleteTalk To her is a unique and somewhat creepy film about love. The film is a narrative, which I believe is detrimental because it makes it harder for the viewer to connect with the characters on a personal level. Personally I disliked both male characters (Benigno and Marco) because of this. Although I overall did not enjoy watching this movie, I liked how different it was from a normal love story. The main plot of Talk to Her is about the development of a great, unconditional relationship between two men, but these two men have met only because of their strange relationship and unfortunate accidents with two women (Alicia and Lydia). Benigno is truly the strange character in this film as he is obsessed over a woman he has never met and ends up caring for her while she is in a coma. Marco and Benigno meet when Marco’s lover, Lydia is severely injured in a bullfight and is in a coma as well. These two men spend countless hours taking care of their “lovers” and become the best of friends. They tell each other everything and although some of Benigno’s actions are questionable (stalkerish?) Marco still gets close to him. The movie is centered on their unconditional friendship and even when Alicia gets raped they do not judge each other and stay friends. Coming to another point that was extremely disturbing to me was the fact that Alicia was raped, and having the child woke her up from the coma. I have no clue what this is supposed to represent nor what Pedro Almodovar was trying to convey but to me it is nothing but disturbing. The movie was extremely troubling to me and one of my least favorite films viewed in this class.
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ReplyDeleteAfter watching “Talk to her”, I was confused because of two opposite feelings about the movie. I was uncomfortable to see that Benigno justifies him trying to have sex with Alicia who is in comma since he nurses her devotedly. But still, in some of parts, I praise Benigno’s dedicated love for Alicia who cannot remember about him. I don’t think director Pedro tries to beautify love by justifying Benigno’s raping or exalts pure love. If he wants to represent pure love for this movie, he should make the conclusion that Benigno has true love with awaked Alicia. However, in this movie, Benigno just collapse himself by too delving into his emotion. The movie showed two failed love and let us know that love with only lame passion is ridiculous. Benigno and Marco’s love is incomplete and unstable. They felt like they got true relationship with their girls but actually they don’t even be able to truly communicate with their lovers. After Alicia became in comma, Benigno keeps trying to talk with her. But, before her accident, when he can normally communicate and fall in love, he couldn’t talk with her and secretly watching her. In other words, Benigno takes advantage of situation to own her; that is no true love. Even, Marco lose Lydia since he couldn’t open his mind to her. I think director Pedro just leaves the question to us about what is real love.
I found "Talk to Her" to be moving and disturbing all at the same time. The movie started with a bizarre interpretive dance scene that sort of set the stage for the entire film. I found the dance scene to be a little strange and maybe a bit too drawn out. I think it would have been more effective if it would have been shortened. It got a little boring after awhile and made me lose some of my initial interest in the film. The other problem I had with the film was that I did not find myself relating to either of the main male characters. Part of that I think was the narrative structure of the film and the fact that both characters were male and I am female.
ReplyDeleteThe most disturbing part of the film was obviously Benigno raping the comatose Alicia. I found it really horrifying especially the fact that in Benigno's mind it was a mutual loving relationship. Obviously this showed that there was definitely something mentally wrong with Benigno. The film portrayed love in a strange way and in the end I found the main theme of the film to be friendship instead of love. Marco is clearly the more relatable character and he stands by Benigno's side and remains a good friend throughout Benigno's ordeal. So, I guess all in all if you look at the film as a film about friendship it was pretty moving. It is definitely not a love story, though.
I found “Talk to Her” to be an interesting though somewhat disturbing film. On the one hand, I thought that the acting was good and the convergence of the two stories was interesting. Benigno’s obsession with Alicia was well-done and realistic; the way his benign intentions towards her manifested in such a horrible way was logical and disturbing. Though Benigno was, to my mind, decidedly evil after the rape, the journey to that point did an excellent job of making him a somewhat sympathetic figure. He was not malicious, just naïve and disconnected. Marco, meanwhile, was a likeable character in a very difficult situation, and certainly the anchor of the film. However, I completely disconnected with Marco at the end of the movie after Benigno’s crime came to light. Clearly, I simply do not think the same way as Almodovar on this count; to me, finding out a friend of mine raped a coma patient would be too unforgivable for me to actually assist him in any way. This was the movie’s only big misstep for me, but it greatly impacted my opinion of the ending. However, I do like the way Almodovar shows Benigno’s love to be strange, with his final impetus for the rape coming from that odd, tongue-in-cheek silent movie; he clearly did not understand what he was doing if a tiny man walking into a vagina was his frame of reference. In that way, Benigno is juxtaposed with Marco, who had a real mature romance and, hopefully, will have another one in the future with Alicia.
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‘Talk to Her’ was truly a unique film. A mixture of romance and tragedy paired with an original way of shooting a film. There were times when I feel the film got out of hand. For example the graphic rape scene and the bizarre opening scene. However once you get over these powerful scenes the film really opens up into a twisting and interesting love story. The way two men obsess about a girl in a coma is something I have never seen before. The film was full of surprises and I was never sure which route the Pedro Almodovar was going to take. For example I thought that Benigno would never do anything to hurt Alicia but then he rapes her. In a sick way I feel that he loved her so much that he thought it was acceptable. It is not the normal style of rape depicted in films. He stays inside of her for a excessively long period of time. As a college student we often her about how people take advantage of others when they are drunk and there is a fine line between loving someone and taking advantage of them. The film certainly raises some extreme moral issues but I feel this was not the aim of Almodovar. He was trying to create a suspenseful drama but for the majority of the film I was not captivated but it.
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Ii was a pretty interesting film. The way that Almodovar make his movies is quiet amazing. I think he is a pretty creative guy and "Talk to Her" was an example of how combine a lot of factors to have this result. "Talk to Her" was a mix of love and a kind of sadness. Benigno is character that easily reflects that is sick and the movie gave me the reason by the moment he rape alicia, but even with that Marco feels compassion about him and kid of help him and take care also of Alicia. Something that makes me curious, was the way that Beningno and Marco meet each other, and the relation they have. overall i think the best word to describes the film is Bizarre. It shows how the creativity of a person has no frontier to make these kind of movies.
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ReplyDeleteIt is a touching movie.It touches people little by litter and launch the love mind in people's heart.And personally I love the pace of this movie. Actually I like falling in sleep when I'm watching a "slow-pace" movie, director Pedro Almodovar's rhythm has a spiritual,some time even faster than me, through whole movie I don't have time to guess what would happen I just follow the pace and it becomes easy to make unexpected sense of drama.
In talk to her, there is a 7-minute spanish silent scene,"shrinking man" .In that love story, the man devote him self completely to his lover, we fully struck down by it and so does Benigno.It also references the reason of the Alicia's pregnant and the fate of the actor.
The movie can recall the purest felling about love from people's heart, I think the ending makes the story perfect,Alicia woke up,she saw Marco and smile like she falls in love at the first sight,everything becomes more meaningful.Talk to her, talk to her and never stop talking to her.that makes Benigno's love for Alicia becomes a faith of him to give her happiness.
Talk to her one of the famous movies of Almodovar, since my point of view is a very dramatic film. Where love is one of the main topics, but through the movie you can see how that pure love turns into something disturbed in my opinion. It was very shocking to see how Benigno thought that the love Alicia and him had was pure, the truth is that he just saw what he wanted, because in a moral point of view is irrational to have sexual relationships with a woman in coma. But at the same time you can see how deeply in love he was, that he got to the point to die if few words “for love”, is demonstrated during the film that the only things he wants in life is Alicia. Definitely through the movie you can see the different style that Almodovar uses, you can simply see it through the colors he uses in the scenes. Also you can see that this movie has a climax that is when the rape occurs, as well as a resolution. I consider the resolution of the film, the scene where Alicia is acting and then Marco is in crowd watching her, and suddenly it appears Marco and Alicia, which I interpret as a following scene where a love story will involved Marco and Alicia. This is also shocking because, Marco was a good friend of Benigno who died for passionate love. Also after you see the movie is good how the title of the movie Talk to her is very ironic, because I think is way of expressing how Benigno really can’t talk to her because in her health condition Alicia can’t listen.
ReplyDeleteFinally, Talk to Her is a movie that everyone should see because it gives you an orientation into something different, a style that burnishes over others.
I found the movie Talk To Her a little interesting but romantic. I consider it also a dramatic film. The main characters Benigno and Marco are friends who are passing through the same situation of being in love with a woman who is in a comma. The relationships between the main characters were a little weird and disturbing at the same time. For example, the part of the movie where Benigno raped Alicia while she was literally dead was very overwhelming and horrible. You could see through the movie how Benigno was a person with mental problems, and it was reflected in the way he was in love with Alicia. On the other hand, Marco shows he is a good friend who stands by Benigno´s side the whole time. I do not see myself reflected in any of the main characters. Therefore, this was not one of my favorites movies in the class.
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Talk To Her is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen, and yet I very much enjoyed it. I think the fact that Almodovar portrays the raping of Alicia as not clear is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand, all logic and evidence would point to Benigno acting as the raper. Although in his mind, he would not be raping her as their love is mutual for each other. He is clearly greatly moved by the shrinking man, a film about a man entering a woman vaginally. Benigno does not wish to do Alicia harm and is so in love with her that he wants them to be married. I have heard of the Florence Nightingale effect, where people fall in love with their care-taker, and while I have not heard of a term that goes the opposite way, it is not incomprehensible that such a condition would exist.
On the other hand though, Benigno would never do anything to harm Alicia in anyway. Even his name, with the root of benign means that he wouldn't do harm. In the end, we must first decide if Benign would view them having sex, and a child as harming her in anyway. Through his actions, I think that he shows that he does not believe that this would hurt her and as a result, I do think that it was Benigno who raped her.
On another note, I found Marco to be despicable. Much like a parent that walks out on a kid and family, I found that I could not sympathize with Marco at all after he left Lydia. While I would completely understand him wanting to leave her, I cannot understand leaving the country so that you do not have to do it in person. Even if Marco had stopped caring for her and begun seeing other people, but upon her awaking had come and spoken to her and said he was leaving her, that would be different. But his way was just cowardly.
Let me start off by saying that I loved this movie! It took me by surprise because I wasn't expecting the movie to take the turns that it did. As usual, I saw the movie with no prior knowledge of what it was about. I saw that the movie was in Spanish along with the woman who was a bull rider and knew for sure that I was going to be put to sleep, but I was wrong. Talk to Her was so interesting and random. I felt a little bad for Marco and Benigno because they were in love with women in comas, who probably would not have dated them if they were awake. Benigno's obsession with Alicia is what actually made the movie. I felt for him because I understood that he truly loved her, but to others he seemed like an obsessed sick rapist.
ReplyDeleteThe short films within the movie were also very interesting. At first it seemed like the usual silent film, then it took a turn for very weird. I wasn't expecting the final scenes when the scientist and his lover got intimate. I thought it was funny and a good way to imply that Benigno had made love to Alicia. I couldn't believe that he actually impregnated her. This movie was full of scandal. It stepped out of the normal. I was hoping that Benigno would get a chance to meet Alicia after she woke up from her coma. Benigno had went through a lot for her. I felt like he should have at least seen her once before he died. The end of the movie implied that Marco and Alicia might possibly end up in a romantic relationship. I don't think that Marco would be a good friend if he did decide to date Alicia. Benigno loved her to death, so I would find their relationship somewhat inappropriate. I hope that Marco would not be that shady. That would be the ultimate betrayal to Benigno.
In "Talk to Her", writer-director Pedro Almodóvar uses a premise of means of exploring love as both a selfless and selfish act. He seems to truly understand how love affects his characters. This time he creates a unique cast: a reporter, a male nurse, a dancer and a female matador. How Almodóvar ties these four lives together is part of the charm of the film. His story jumps through times and instead of being slightly lost, you feel like you're listening to a great storyteller who gives you the details you need at the exact point when you need them. The story he tells gets more interesting as it goes on, while some of the elements may be familiar, no element is ever predictable. I did find the rape scenes a little weird but they were appropriate to what was going on in the film. While movies such as these do not usually interest me, this one sparked an interest that leaves me wanted to see more movies by Almodóvar.
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Each time I see a film by Pedro Almodovar, I am taken aback. I enjoy watching this type of film since the characters are very well presented and the plot has also been well devised. Nothing is there by chance, and the audience always has to pay attention. What usually happens to me with Almodovar films is that I have to be extremely attentive in the beginning, because I do not want to match characters or names. The outcome of the movie is rather strange, but I was waiting for something like that to happen. Almodovar likes to bring different themes such as sexuality and relationships with women. I had first seen this movie when it came out in the movies and am glad I saw it again. This makes me want to watch more Almodovar films and immerse myself into this type of genre. On a side note, I enjoy watching Italian movies, and I think these two are very similar. They are far from the Hollywood ideas, since Europeans prefer to have action and drmana in their lives. It is not a Hollywood ending and it is better that way. It is always very interesting to see how everyone connects after all.
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I’m not really sure on whether or not I enjoyed the movie because at times I felt very bored, but at other parts I really liked the atmosphere, narrative, characters, and music. I also noticed the use of closeup shots on many of the characters, as well as the flashbacks shown throughout the movie. On the feeling of the movie, it seemed very emotive and I also thought it had a very stylized and profligate approach to it’s filming approach. I really enjoyed the narrative of the love triangle between two men and one woman in a coma. At the same time It was uncomfortable to witness Benigno who was initially infatuated with Alicia becoming her nurse with duties of washing her in the nude and eventually raping her while being in a coma. Also I didn’t really understand why the movie didn’t seem to portray Benigno as that bad of a person, because after that action I didn’t have any respect for his character. I never really had any sympathy for him at all at any point in the movie. There were some other strange scenes including the one where Marco (the other love interest) took Lydia outside and dressed her up to make her seem conscious. The film really made me really question if it’s possible to care too much for somebody in a relationship, what the difference is between love and obsession, and what is considered crossing the line to obtain someone’s love. It’s essentially a story of irregular relationships that are all tangled into one movie. But overall it was a very risky decision to include such a controversial issue into a movie, but I think it was pulled off decently.
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ReplyDeletethe film to the fateful coincidences arranged for two male host Mr. Of the second encounter. Because to contain inner to Asia ali feelings, beth in a coma for nino ali the Asia sexual abuse, and led to her pregnancy. Mark try with conversation and Lydia communication, but he is in another man after the intervention of the choose exit. At the end of the film "conscious" arranged mark and the revival of ali west Asia meet by chance, for a new feelings lay the basis. Director in this and do not have redundant hinted that, but let the lens in the moment of eyes meet solidification, leaving people infinite daydream. The film contained the rich content and discusses the strength to make it far beyond the general sense of the romance. Director of processing skill though it has a magic power, will be two section is unlikely to take the love is, Betty nino "rape" sweetheart a design especially fascinating. Curtain open, the man in black, the song and dance bedfellows, blindly follow sb to accompany a closed eyes, waltzes and goes crazy white woman, for fear that she in many hard fall between the desk and chair hurt; Dust off the timing, the end of the film ShouShu a group of young man opera high request lift up a woman with splendor, for she sang not... Exaggerated situation all men to show women and safeguard against the muguet, they are on the silent action "to" in their respective that "she said" : "I hope you can jump over all the barriers, and then you can dance into your new life." -this is what we hear the nino to beautiful west Asia the first gentle love me.
Feng Yang
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In the movie Talk to her, there was a clip of silent film "shrink lover" (Shrinking Man) lasts for up to seven minutes. In the silent love story, the man who was so in love with the women finally got into her body to devote him completely, fusing into one for their love. I was fully emotion excited by this clip as well as Bei Ninuo. This clip was a reference of both implicitly confessed the causes of Alicia's pregnancy while indirectly implies that the ending of fate of the male actor later on. I feel that in some ways, it is precisely because of the loved girl for the time being has been in the unconscious condition that Bei Ninuo can be so calm and quiet in love with her. Maybe the entity of love can only bloom when we do not feel humble or like an inferior good compared to others. It might sound sad but this insistent of the belief is the thing that impresses people the most. Somebody lost it and somebody had it. The weight for love may be different, because the meaning of love is always not the same towards everyone. Love does not mean you will gain, but simply means that you will dedicate ---- to give everything. You will be rewarded. However, this actually has nothing to with your dedication; your devotion is because you love. If you're lucky, you may be loved in return, it is intoxicating, but that things will not necessarily happen, love simply means that the heart and soul of dedication.
in this movie,The footage at the beginning of that period of music to bring people endless sadness. Marks because it was moved to tears, everything beside Ban Nino aware, because of this encounter will be their fate intertwined together. During that sad music seems to be planted for the last story with a hint of depression. After the performance, they each go their own way At the end of the movie, Alicia and Mark touched the side, which is also sowed the seeds for future feelings. A dance, film slightly tragic ending. "She said," proving once again that the real skill of the master director of Almodovar, the movie has given a profound theme and content. The film gave people a little despair, but despair and hope, that this contradiction is to have some magical color. Someone to love dedication, as long as you are truly a person, even if it will not have any results, but all worth it. Play opera lover "Zoom" is more vivid. "She said," Almodovar again on the floor stairs. Alicia may not know what happened in a coma, even though she knew nothing, but in the misty sky, there is a love light the bad and the atmosphere is always linger at her side this breath, she felt get.
ReplyDeleteThe face of a person you love, how long for her dedication.
Michelle Yidios
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Talk to her is a 2002 Spanish film. This is a different movie as well. I had never seen something similar before. I like the way everything revolves around the “talk”. There is a lot of love, loneliness and communication. The colors in the film in a way represent these three feelings. Each of the four characters (Benigno, Marco, Alicia, Lydia) has their own way of communicating and each one is like in their own different world. There are a lot of sentiments and once again they represent each of their personalities. I like the way Benigno doesn’t want to harm Alicia and cares for her. I also like how each character works in very different areas so when they come together is interesting. At the same time it is full of drama, I love drama. The dances on the film caught my attention a lot. The fact that the movie was in Spanish was good for me because I’m a Spanish speaking person so it was easy to understand. My feelings got involved and love was all I felt, even though in the movie it sometimes seemed confusing because of the accusations. It was interesting I will definitely see it again.
Talk to Her was truly unlike any other film I had ever seen in my life and I fully enjoyed every second of it. Almodovar uses the relationships between Benigno/Alicia and Marco/Lydia to examine deep psychological and moral controversies. I really like how the viewer’s perception of the characters in the film completely changes as the film progresses. In my eyes, Benigno went from being someone who amazed and inspired me with his selfless passion for his job to someone whose sanity I questioned entirely. I truly believe that Benigno was not a predator but just someone with misguided and abnormal psychological problems stemming from his mother’s death and other unknown childhood complications. Although other characters were suspicions of Benigno’s relationship with Alicia, no one can question that his interest in and dedication to her wellbeing was unparalleled, even by her own father.
ReplyDeleteI thought that Talk to Her was a fantastic movie. This was the first film by Pedro Almodóvar that I saw, and I have to say, I really admire his story-telling ability. From the very first scene to the end of the film I felt really engaged in what was going on. While at first the scene at the theatre seemed a bit out of place, it made a lot more sense as the film went on. Each of the actors was suppose to represent a main character in the movie. Marco and Benigno are two likeable guys who were put into extremely unfortunate circumstances. The loves of their lives are both in comas, and they are doing what they can to help support them. While it was horrible what Benigno did to Alicia, somehow the film is able to make you feel sympathetic towards him. I never thought I would be able to say that had somebody mentioned that would happen before the movie, but the actor and Almodóvar somehow found a way to turn him into a sympathetic character. I’m also not sure if this was intentionally or not, but I found the use of bright colors to be very strange. There are all of these very unfortunate events surrounding our main characters, but the director chooses to use bright colors for a large portion of the film. Was this to add some sort of contrast? I also really liked the film within the film. I believe it put is into the head of Benigno, and tried to make us understand what he thought the idea of love was.
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ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I saw Pedro Almodovar's films.
In most people's impressions of his movies and his private life, filled with violence, homosexuality, incest, vulgar scene.
Whereas, women description of the delicate and full of love.
This time, he related to the feelings and friendship of the men.
"Talk To Her" is such a man's perspective, a man of dialogue, to show a woman out.
Actor Bei Ninuo shy demeanor, attentive care, pure emotion, like a gentle woman.
Around him in a vegetative state guardian for four years, as she was cleaning the skin, joint activities, to accompany her to the sun, reading and telling the dramatic plot, tell her the size of things, but also for her haircut, combed hair, compiled braids.
Treated like a normal conscious.
All this, just because pure love.
Even if he can not help with the vegetative Alicia sexual relationship, this love is still pure touching.
If he looked in the window before the car accident Alicia dancing figure while intoxicated Alicia home to steal her hairpin, as people could not bear to blame the behavior of his students love.
Another actor Mark is also a sentimental man.
He'll be watching a drama and tears, to hear sad songs away alone.
Female bullfighter Lydia gradually born of love, but away from her after she was bull Knocked vegetative state, just because Lydia's ex-boyfriend showed like a more soulful than his love.
The Bei Ninuo is his friend, he taught him a woman needs care in any case, even if they are a vegetative state, every word she said she can feel.
He would follow with Bei Ninuo like to take care of Lydia, to talk to her, let her sun Alicia.
However, he did not insist.
When he departed, Lydia died.
Lydia does not look as strong as her work.
Including that she would scream piercing because a snake did not dare to live at home.
She has a fragile heart, precisely because of the emotional hurt, she will choose a matador.
In the middle of a group of men, she appears to be as resolute and unyielding, but because of them have hurt her, and let the Bulls wantonly trampled on their own, to being pulled out from the pain.
Compared to Lydia, delicate appearance, Alicia is the real strong woman.
Finally defeated after sleeping for four years will wake up, gave birth stillbirth was still burdened with shame to appear in her dance practice room, watching the others leg, turning in circles but can not get up, but still under the guidance of their teachers rehabilitation, she believed that one day they will be back here to practice with.
Bei Ninuo taught Mark how to take care of a woman.
Marks will be specifically to visit Bei Ninuo in prison, but also to stop the behavior he wants to escape immediately after the receipt of his message.
Bei Ninuo only marks a friend, they take care of two women forged a precious friendship makes him trust him without reservation.
The entire narrative of the story is from the interludes and flashbacks.
Look at the film's like to appreciate a good care of the men, glamorous women, and blend all the excellent quality of the men and women, mature, passionate, delicate.
The screen smooth and slow, cello from time to time ringing in the ears, I think the most beautiful Spanish dialogue, leading your heart to understand, to the perception of two men inner world.
Lydia died, the Bei Ninuo not see Alicia jailbreak failed, and committed suicide in prison in the theater, Mark recognized the awakening Alicia Alicia also noted The theater moved to tears of Mark, and he had a curiosity.
A new possibility began.
Mark is smile to Alicia.
Talk to her is a Spanish film by Almodovar. I dont think I have ever seen a movie quite like this one. It is a comedy and although I did laugh it wasn't one of the better movies we watched in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe movie revolves around a man named benigno who is in love with Alicia, who was in a bull fighting accident resulting in her being in a coma and never being able to function again. This movie gets really weird when he rapes her and impregnates Alicia. This made me want to stop watching the movie but I realized that the director put it in the movie for a reason. But then at the end I did not understand why he commits suicide when he thinks she has died. I enjoyed the movie but I thought that the director could have made Beningo a different type of character. One thing that I did enjoy highly in this movie is the way the director truly made every conversation between people special by using quick cutting techniques while filming.
I haven’t watched a movie as good a Talk to Her in a long time. The story is wonderful, the intertextuality is amazing and the music was very fitting to the movie. I love psychological thrillers and to a certain extent, this movie is one. The character of Benigno is psychologically mad and due to the events, rape, coma, suicide, the genre of thriller may also be applied to this movie.
ReplyDeleteThe plot is very interesting. Two men who are in love with two women who are both in Coma’s at the same hospital become good, or may I say, best friends. Their friendship is very weird but it’s valid and truthful. Marco knows of Benigno’s insanity but he still pursues the friends and tries to help his friend survive his own mind. Even though the movie has very shocking events, the raping of a girl in coma, it’s neither violent nor explicit.
The placing of the camera at times when all the characters are in the scene, like the scene when everyone is outside in the sun, is perfectly centered, as if the whole world revolves around these four characters.
The intertextuality with the ballet scenes is important to the movie. An example is the opening scene, of the interpretive dancing where the man has to push away the chairs for the lady who is out of control and seems even unconscious to a certain extent. The characters in the dance symbolize the characters in the movie to some point.
Talk to Her was a very original movie, centered around the relationships between two men, Marco and Begnino, and the two women who they are in love with, both of whom are in comas. The movie begins with Marco and Begnino meeting at a concert and then later becoming friends, as both have love interests in the same hospital. The film then tells the story of each man’s relationship with the woman they love, using flashbacks to tell their past history. Both relationships take bad turns, as Marco discovers his girlfriend, who was gored by a bull, had cheated on him prior to her injury, and Begnino wrongfully believes a comatose woman reciprocates feelings for him and rapes her, causing her to get pregnant. Marco leaves and Begnino is sent to prison, with Marco eventually coming back to try and help him. In the end, the relationship between Marco and Begnino, strangers at the beginning, ends up being the strongest one in the movie. Overall, it was an interesting way to tell the story and an enjoyable film.
ReplyDeleteTalk to Her was a weird yet interesting film. I wasn’t sure what to expect and when I thought I had an idea of where the movie was heading it changed completely. I liked the intertextuality that Almodovar incorporated. I also liked the comedic aspect of the film. I speak Spanish so I was able to understand certain jokes and funny expressions that don’t translate the same to English. What disturbed me about the film was that the face of Alicia in a coma was shown many times. Even though it was fake I was very disgusted because the characterization made it seem very real. Also, my opinion of the character Benigno changed completely from the beginning of the film to the end. At first I felt pity for him. The woman he loved was in a coma and his love story seemed hopeless. When it was revealed that he raped her, I was shocked and didn’t like him. But at the end when he was in jail and decides to kill himself because he didn’t find out that Alicia was alive I felt bad for him again. Talk to Her is not the type of film I would watch again but I think it should be watched at least once because of Almodovar’s distinct style.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I saw Talk to Her in Spanish and was very confused by the whole film, not that I couldn’t understand it but it just seemed very odd to me. The film focuses on 4 individuals, Benigno and Alicia as well as Marco and Lydia. From the opening scene where the two men are at an odd dance performance performed by older women to the unexpected circumstances which the two men meet once again in the hospital, it is an overall odd film.
ReplyDeleteIt is a drama with some added comedy, while also dealing with very serious topics. I’ve heard some people describe what Benigno did to the sleeping Alicia as rape and others as some type of symbolism of his attempt to awaken her. Only adding to the queerness of the film was that unlike what I expected the film did not lead you to feeling disgust or hate towards Benigno, which I believe a normal film would have. Instead you feel somewhat sympathetic of his character and the position he is in. I believe you can draw many different meanings and themes from this film as is Almodovar’s intent.
It was the first time I watched Spanish movie and I just thought this is just about love story of two couples right after seeing the movie. However, as I think about it more, it teaches us the difficulty of communicating others because in movie, we could see only two men’s side of love, not the mutual love that both woman and man falling in love. It was somewhat sad but I feel angry about the fact that two women were disrespected by men. It can’t be beautiful loves because it is only one sided love and we don’t know about whether two girls really want the men’s love. When it comes to the way the two men loving girls, they are a little bit different. One man is always sad and obsessed by memory of the girl. On the other hand, the other one is very optimistic and want to do his best to take care of her. However, It is very absurd and disgusting that he had a sex with the girl in a coma but it can be also understood as the way of love and obsession by one man toward one girl. This movie was very interesting because it covers the unconventional love.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I initially thought Talk to Her, a film by Almodovar, was quite odd, after reflecting upon the film, I can realize why it is considered a great, powerful film. The issue I believe Almodovar is addressing by a means of the film is communication. Without communication, the human race would be significantly less developed than it is today. Something essential as communication to our everyday life is not always as easy as it sounds.
ReplyDeleteIn communication, one may be misunderstood or even not understood at all due to lack of communication. This is where I believe Almodovar creates an argument in regards to communication, specifically between the sexes. I believe that Alicia and Lydia being in a coma represents the difficulty of communicating with the other sex. Further, whether the communication is verbal or sexual, one can not communicate with a person in a coma. As an attempt to communicate his feelings, Benigno rapes Alicia. Although this is perceived by many to be disgusting and wrong, I believe it was a result of Benigno’s inner frustration and inability to properly convey his feelings to the other sex. This film conveys to the audience the idea that we may never be able to perfectly communicate our true feelings to each other.
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ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. One of the main reasons I liked this movie was because of its originality. It’s always a good change of pace to watch a movie that has a unique screenplay and a plot that makes the viewer really think. This film did an effective job in drawing in the viewer and putting us into the movie. Talk to Her was a controversial film as it included numerous racy issues such as infidelity and rape. In some parts, it almost crossed the line as being offensive to some people. I thought that the web of relationships between the four main characters, Benigno, Alicia, Marco and Lydia was very interesting. What stood out to me the most was the way Pedro Almodovar played with emotions. At one time, you could be crying, but in the next scene, you could be laughing. The end of the film was the most powerful aspect to Talk to Her. I left the movie feeling like I went on an emotional roller coaster. Although twisted at times, it was a beautiful piece of work.
I have no words to say, after seen this movie, it shows a sorrow story without any language, as far as I am concerned , I have to praise the perfect skills of those 2 actress, it is the most original way to act, it adopted kind of European opera elements, made this short part more vivid and dramatic. Acting is an attitude, not just a skill, the dim color and the uses of closed-up shots are developed in this film extremely,without any questions, I was conquered by this film, even I just saw a little part of it. This is such a man's perspective, a man of dialogue, to show a woman out.Actor Bei Ninuo shy demeanor, attentive care, pure emotion, like a gentle woman.Look at the film's like to appreciate a good care of the men, glamorous women, and blend all the excellent quality of the men and women, mature, passionate, delicate.
ReplyDeleteThe screen smooth and slow, cello from time to time ringing in the ears, I think the most beautiful Spanish dialogue, leading your heart to understand, to the perception of two men inner world.
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ReplyDeleteYet another strange film. When the summary is read, this movie seems like it will be really good. However, I did not find this to be true. I thoroughly disliked this film. Maybe it was the rape scene where a man impregnates a woman in a coma, that probably did it for me. The movie was not the worst thing I have ever seen, but is still farther from the best. The amount of strange scenes were unpleasant. I feel that since this is a Pedro Almodovar film that there is high value in aspects of the movie that are naked to the untrained eye. Unfortunately I do not really view films in this manner. Though I am sure this movie would be more appealing to a person with years of film experience, for me, I was not into this movie by any means.
Although an excellent example of cinematography doing all the talking it is still a little to out there for me. Unfortunately I was unable to focus watching this movie because of the jaw dropping scenes (especially the rape). I can imagine this to be very controversial but just because I don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't be seen. Sometimes I got lost between the Spanish and English but other than that the acting was decent and the cinematography was bold and well done.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interestingly sad movie. I did not enjoy it because of the sadness. It felt contrived, I felt no empathy or sympathy for the characters. It was an interesting plot, but at some point I felt frustrated, like when Marco reads in a newspaper that Lydia has died in her coma. Also when Benigno goes to jail, that is frustrating to me as well.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning I did not get the dance sequence. I don't get why he cried either. Little things like that made this movie hard to get into, and it made me frustrated as well.
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ReplyDeleteI believe this film was very well made. The colors are vibrant and the music is very well put.The character, 2 women and 2 men make this film make it quite enjoyable and contribute to the film, spinning an interesting way of looking at loving relationships especially from the male's perspective. One of the characters infatuation leads him to delusion while the other has perpetual heartache.
Overall, this film is quite mysterious and bizarre. I felt like it was symbolic and meaningful. I love Almodóvar's examination of life, and although the story is very complex, he somehow manages to remain focused on the many relationships and intricate characters he presents. There were moments of disgust for me, but there were also moments of great, yet subtle pleasures, such as the beautiful contrast between the beginning and the end of the film.
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ReplyDeleteAlmodovar has again succeeded in making a powerful yet original and definitely different film. This film opens with a strange if nothing else silent dance act that can be used as a metaphor for the rest of the movie. It continues to show a very moved Marco and a very unmoved Benigno. The viewer learns at that moment that Marco will be their rock to reality because already Benigno shows a strange absence of emotion.
The two men meet again as Marco’s girlfriend is hospitalized in a coma. She is placed in a room with another comatose girl who it is Benigno’s job to look after. Surprisingly here Benigno is able to help Marco with his grief and a friendship blooms. From then on we see Marco trying to bring Benigno back into reality and continues to fail at this aspect. Marco finally leaves when his girlfriend’s former lover tells him that Lydia has been back with him for a while before her accident. Far away doing his job Marco learns that Lydia has died in her coma and also that Alice, the girl Benigno was watching, has become pregnant. Benigno is blamed although he truly believes that his and Alice’s affair was mutual. Marco returns to Spain and tries to help Benigno. As this goes on Alice has a stillborn baby, but awakes from her coma. The movie has a happy ending when Marco smiles at Alice and it says “Next Act: Alice and Marco.”
On paper, this film sounds like it has a really good plot because it is all relatable to real life; intimacy, communication, loneliness etc. However, once I saw the actual movie, I was a little disappointed. My disappointment in the film stems from the lack of emotion felt both on screen and as a member of the audience. It was very somber and disturbing. The rape scene was absolutely tragic and totally incomprehensible because you can't possible fathom why someone would do such a sick thing. I think the rape scene is what sent me over the edge in this movie. One thing I did enjoy from this film was the presentation about communication between the sexes, I did find that interesting. Overall, I did not enjoy this movie, too odd for me!
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ReplyDeleteTalk to Her is a film about love, but also the one about loneliness and communication. In this age of indifference and selfishness, many people are suffering from aphasia; they have lost the ability to communicate with people. People are afraid to get along with the crowd, preferring to face the screen do not want to face to face. Loss of language does not mean losing the ability of the language, it actually means the loss of the ability and desire of wanting to express. The film reveals the actual communication problems that were existed in real life through the care of a patient and wake him up by talking to him. To think from a positive perspective, perhaps the movie is trying to tell people that if you love someone, then try your best to communicate with them so that they will understand your love and actually feel your love. Love is not love without your lover's responses. "He just falls in love with the concept of love." Communication is a two way thing which requires two parties. The film also revealed how people tend to prefer to live in their imagination rather than facing the reality.
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ReplyDeleteFrom this film, we know that the Benigo is a Ordinary man that is not handsome, he study the nurse when he was young because of his mother, he has to take care of sick in bed mother, and he has never make a girl friend. And when his mother was died, he fall in love with a girl that named Alicia, she is a student of a ballet school, and the Alicia is a because girl and she is very rich. But unfortunately the girl get Into a vegetable and be sexual assault by Benigo.
In my opinion, obviously, the director is sympathetic to Benigo, in the film with silent film "the lover of narrow form of suggests that the class of the wrong behavior patterns, in order to reduce such behavior of the qi of the animosity, more or less to express the feeling director view: the behavior all for love. However, the alicia’s father may understand, for benigo with such a simple life experience man speaking, he simply love the beautiful west Asia, he just want to always think and beautiful west Asia together, even want to get married with a vegetable, care for her also don't regret. But, even so, the Alicia’s father may forgive class of how so selfish behavior patterns? With persistent love as can be "simple" to do everything from think to take for granted things? As the beautiful west Asia ballet teacher in the movie speak: "nothing is simple!" .
Talk to her to me used some of the best symbolism and allusions in any film I have seen in recent memory. So many parts of the film were interwoven with each other, and by the end you realize that many events were foreshadowed or hinted at earlier. Also given its unique story of a love triangle that is definitely different by most standards, the narrative structure of the film helped explain and give depth to the film, whereas a more straightforward film would have faltered and maybe seemed a little incomplete.
ReplyDeleteThe structure also allowed for the differences Begnino and Marco to be shown and highlighted. How two characters who are close be so different and represent so many different things. Also Talk to Her is a rare movie where rape isn’t completely condemned, and the audience continues to feel emotion for Begino even though that happened previously in the film. It shows that people do make mistakes but it doesn’t inherently change them as a person. Sometimes people falter in their lives but that doesn’t change their nature if its actually good or bad.
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Almodovar’s Talk to Her tells the tale of three intertwining dynamic relationships. The film opens with Benigno and Marco, not having yet met, attending a dance piece with Marco being brought to tears by the performance and Benigno intrigued by his reaction. The film then leads into Benigno and Alicia’s relationship. Benigno is Alicia’s nurse, caring for her while she is in a coma. Benigno has practically stalked Alicia and has developed an unhealthy infatuation with her while under his care. Marco’s relationship is with the famous bull fighter Lydia, whom he is sent to report on. Lydia suffers a severe injury and is sent to the same hospital where Alicia resides. Over Lydia’s stay Marco is consoled by Benigno and forges a friendship with the man seeing the good in him despite his faults. Beniigno eventually impregnates Alicia and is imprisoned. Marco stands by his friend, but Benigno takes his own life. In the end a fourth relationship blooms between Marco and the awakened Alicia.
Almodovar tackles the challenge of humanizing the character of Benigno, who would typically be seen as a despicable outcast by the general public. He does this through Benigno’s relationship with Marco. Benigno’s concern for Marco and the compassion he shows throughout their friendship exemplifies the basic innocence and good in Benigno despite his perverse nature. Almodovar successfully tackles the complexities of human interactions and the ambiguity of a person’s overall nature.
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This movie was crazy! A very complex story design; one has to appreciate the writing behind this movie and its intricate story. I speak Spanish, so I feel like I can also state that the writer who translated it did a very good job. So the way I interpreted this movie is that Almodovar is trying to demonstrate the fragility of romantic infatuations and the subjectivity with which one may view love. The feature has beautiful cinematography and is shot brilliantly. I particularly thought the short film they include was fascinating. The characters are developed so interestingly and unexpectedly that i had to strongly disagree with my friend who said it was boring. I don't see how someone could experience such strange events and beautiful metaphors--such as a female matador and her juxtaposition with a ballet dancer and the differences with which they are portrayed, not to mention the scenes that are implied such as the rape scene and the hinted possible future romantic relationship at the end--and say that that was boring. I don't see how. I found it amazing how many emotions this director could take the audience through, not to disregard the skill with which the actors executed their roles. I think one of the strongest aspects of the film were its attention to detail. For example the fact that Benigno would be named as such adds so much depth to his character and the story line. This is the first film I've experienced by this director but I am quite curious to see his other films--his short films in particular.
Talk to Her was a very sad movie to me. The two men in the movie were hopelessly in love with the women, who were both in comas. I can imagine it to be a very difficult situation to be in. The movie tries to makes the viewer think about it in perspective and what they would do. It portrays the men’s desperation to have the women wake up and love them again. For example, Benigno rapes his comatose girlfriend, yet the movie does not depict him as a villain and it actually makes you feel sympathy for him in an odd way. As the movie provides you with background information on their relationships, it makes you feel sadder for the situation as you get to know the men and their girlfriends. I think as the viewers learn about the men and women’s relationships, it symbolizes the men getting to know each other. I can visualize them telling stories of each other’s past and sharing their memories, both good and bad. The men develop a strong bond through experiencing this together. I think one can only imagine what it’s like to have a comatose girlfriend by also having the same situation. They understand each other’s pain and frustration. The story has a very sad and complicated ending, with one woman dying, and one man committing suicide.
ReplyDelete"Talk to Her" is a film about love, but also the one about loneliness, the film about communication. Read some critics, the vast majority are only talking about the former, the latter is the essence. In this age of indifference and selfishness, many people are suffering from aphasia ", lost the ability to communicate with people, including myself. I was afraid to get along with the crowd, preferring to face the screen do not want to face to face. My life is too mediocre? I was too ignorant and tasteless? Or I do not love life and life?
ReplyDeleteBei Ninuo said: talk to her, even though she can not answer. When the party was completely silent, the other party have a chance to speak his own mind, this is a how sad thing. In many cases the language and can not help us understand each other, we are facing together to talk and listen, to express and understand the problem. Our lives do not want to open too many people in need to speak, there are too many people have nothing to say when the flight, even if some people listen to, say that it can not understand what you're talking about. Instead, the real exchange and communication is no need for words, and heartfelt love. The real wake-up Alicia the Bei Ninuo love, rather than language, but Alicia knew nothing about. Our love after all, is lonely, because we can not each other warm. Marco's love is restrained, he has not said to Lydia, just quietly watching has been in a vegetative state. Once full of hope, he can not be expressed in Lydia did not know he is not her lover, they can never be mutual understanding, in terms of conscious or unconscious. Finally Lydia died, Marco is probably a relief for his travel as an escape, when we can not face their own emotional.
If you speak to a person, that person does not respond, then you are going to last? Day? Month? Or four years? If you love a person, that person does not respond, then you are going to last? Three months? five years? or life? "Jie Chen critic "she said," in the beginning paragraphs, the assessment is Pedro Almodovar's "She said," he said. This passage, an eight question marks, each with a question mark, I can not answer, perhaps, no one can answer.Damn everyone in the world all need love, love, ah, so noble, luxury, so noble and fragile, have to suffer so many people intake, profane, unknown so trampled. Only the weak and innocent wretch, no pity ......Love A, what kind of people know the love? Is Bei Ninuo understand? Mark do not know how? The two were forced to lose the sense of loss of thinking women know how to? No one knows, because do not understand before, only to say, to express, to exhaust all efforts to do meaningless things, what a luxury self-flagellation. The ignorance from someone you love is unbearable. Definitly as always
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