Almodovar's film "Speak to Her" tells a story about friendship, love, loneliness, survival and conversation. Like all Almodovar films, this story still begins with a woman. Expand. The difference is that this time it is not the woman herself who tells the story, but how two men love a woman and how this love eventually led to a precious friendship...
Concert In the audience, the young male nurse Benino and the middle-aged writer Mark happened to sit together. Two strangers were moved by a piece of beautiful music at the same time. Benigno saw tears in Mark's eyes, and he was so moved at the moment that he knew that the man sitting next to him had the same kind heart as himself. After a brief spiritual exchange, Benino did not expect to meet this kind man again in the future, and he would meet him in the clinic where he worked.
Although Benino and Mark are different in age and status, and their lovers do not know each other, their situations are so similar. Benino's girlfriend Alicia is a ballet student. She is lying on the hospital bed in the clinic where Benino is located. Mark's girlfriend Lydia is a professional bullfighter. She was also lying in this clinic because she was injured at work. The two got to know each other through the same encounter and gradually became friends. Every time Mark passed by Alicia's ward, he would see Benigno whispering something to Alicia.
They are two different people. Even if they face the same situation, their inner feelings are different from each other. Benino felt very happy in his heart because he could be so close to the one he loved, and more importantly, he was sure that she could hear him and understand and share his love. But Mark always felt very sad and depressed because he couldn't communicate with the person he loved, let alone what was thinking in her heart. Benino told Mark that talking to a comatose patient is a form of therapy. Even if she can't answer and doesn't know you are talking, you must keep talking, so that the patient can recover as soon as possible. The same experiences and encounters brought the two men with different ideas closer together. Mark gradually changed under the influence of Benino, and the friendship between the two people was also in this constant contact day after day. continue in. But what happened next was beyond everyone's expectation...
At the end of the film, Mark visited the prison. But the guard said: "We can't visit today, but you can come again on the weekend. Because this is a nursing home, not a prison." Later, Mark saw Benino, who was feeling sad alone. Because in his opinion, this place is a prison. Without his beloved woman, this place is a prison for him. So, he decided to escape from prison - he was going to commit suicide. But in fact, there is still no woman he loves in the lonely place of death, because his lover has been awakened by him.
Benino believes that if you talk to a patient when she is in a coma, even if she can't answer at all, even if she doesn't know you are talking, you must keep going... This is how a deep friendship begins. . It is inevitable for people to have communication problems. This feeling is something people only have. As the director himself said: "Anyone with two eyes and a heart can connect with the film." , because it expresses the human nature.
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