Monday, 12 January 2015

Film: Talk To Her


I was shown this film during a few hours during university. Talk to her is a Spanish drama written and produced by Pedro Almodovar. The style of the movie is set between two story-lines that collide, and these were the stories of Benigno Martin and Alica, and Lydia Gonzalez and Marco.
Marco and Lydia Gonzalez met through the Marco's job, which was a journalist. He found Lydia to be a very interesting person, who lead an interesting life as a famous bullfighter so wants to write an article about her. They eventually fall in love, however Lydia came out of a fight very critically injured, which led to her become comatose. 
This is when Benigno's story fully collides with Marco's. As Benigno was a nurse who specializes in caring for those in comas, and where he is caring for his patient Alica, he met Marco and told him to take care of Lydia, who eventually dies. They then both care for Alica, and from the flashbacks throughout the film, we see how Benigno met Alica before her being comatose. He had stalked for a long while, and became a nurse to care for her. However, during the film we see his relationship as nurse being abused and Benigno rapes Alica, and she become pregnant. Her giving birth to her child is what eventually woke her from her coma, but her child did not survive.

I personally didn't enjoy this film for a few reasons. From what others have said about this film, I felt that they felt sympathetic toward Benigno, the complete opposite of what I did. I felt slighly distressed by the film afterward and didn't have a positive viewing experience.The bullfighting aspect of this film was also off putting, personally.

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