Like all the best directors, Almodovar works out problems in life through his films. Pain and Glory remains his most personal -- and hence best -- film to date. Almodovar strips his convoluted storytelling (which conceals more than reveals) to the bare minimum, displaying his lifelong concerns and obsessions with unprecedented nakedness. Like Citizen Kane, the film is at heart about discovering memory, and the key to protagonist, a version of Almodovar, is found in childhood.
前半段刻画统治阶级无情的压迫后半段讽刺类"A person is smart, people are dumb. "的乌合之众的群体无意识和暴力结局是靠着来自上等阶层的“协调者”维持两个阶层间表面的和平电影以非常先锋的形式包裹中庸的精神内核韩国电影爱人高清版几乎是新瓶装旧酒般地再度演绎《抱着CAO才爽》里的故事将阶级斗争的解决之道寄希望于宗教和人性里释放的善意整个故事我看得确实津津有味但感叹这种乐观主义未免过于天真权利和自由势必久假而不归