The 1999 film drama All About My Mother by Spanish director P. Almodóvar is an adaptation sensation. The movie follows Manuela, the mother of Esteban who is run over by a car one night while asking for an autograph. Shaken by the loss of her son, who has been her only family, she begins looking for his father who has become a transvestite.
The performances, patterns of behavior and motivational schemes of the principal characters of the film: Manuela, Lola, Esteban, Agrado and Huma Rojo define and explore the issue of identity and transformations. The semiotic resources Agrado mobilizes in order to dismantle gender authenticity while enacting a monologue in the film. Agrado is a character in Almodóvar's All about My Mother. Finally, I will …show more content…
The binary opposition of Manuela and Lola is the main axis of the film and is a representation of identity. The plural identity is a new challenge for the postmodern society, reflected in film fiction of when this film was made. The main ideas, orientations and motivations of the film are presented in the context of the identity formation process. The changing feminine identity and its representations in the film are analyzed. The transformation of socio-cultural interpretation of the new family model is evident in this film. Identity consolidation is also provided in the story of the film. The process seems to verge from displaying no constraints on family models and human consciousness. These changes introduce new problems and questions into the field of culture and artistic reflections. The opposition of Manuela and Lola encompasses the space within the film fiction, the perception of time and the identity of the characters. The basic attitude towards "real" women and men and families who have two members of opposite genders is irony. An example of this is father and mother figures. This model is ridiculed and represented as frivolous and not very attractive. This is exemplified from both a physiological and a spiritual point of view. The characters who double or "intermediate" identity are represented as interesting, happy
The performances, patterns of behavior and motivational schemes of the principal characters of the film: Manuela, Lola, Esteban, Agrado and Huma Rojo define and explore the issue of identity and transformations. The semiotic resources Agrado mobilizes in order to dismantle gender authenticity while enacting a monologue in the film. Agrado is a character in Almodóvar's All about My Mother. Finally, I will …show more content…
The binary opposition of Manuela and Lola is the main axis of the film and is a representation of identity. The plural identity is a new challenge for the postmodern society, reflected in film fiction of when this film was made. The main ideas, orientations and motivations of the film are presented in the context of the identity formation process. The changing feminine identity and its representations in the film are analyzed. The transformation of socio-cultural interpretation of the new family model is evident in this film. Identity consolidation is also provided in the story of the film. The process seems to verge from displaying no constraints on family models and human consciousness. These changes introduce new problems and questions into the field of culture and artistic reflections. The opposition of Manuela and Lola encompasses the space within the film fiction, the perception of time and the identity of the characters. The basic attitude towards "real" women and men and families who have two members of opposite genders is irony. An example of this is father and mother figures. This model is ridiculed and represented as frivolous and not very attractive. This is exemplified from both a physiological and a spiritual point of view. The characters who double or "intermediate" identity are represented as interesting, happy