Hable con ella was released in 2002 and was Pedro Almodovars 14th film. The film won a number of awards including an Oscar for the best original screen play and a golden globe for best foreign language film.
Hable con ella tells the story of two women in a coma as a result of their injuries and the men that are present in their lives during this time. The four main characters all play important roles in this film, but it is mainly centred around the life of Benigno. Benigno plays a huge part within this movie which leads to questions being asked about him. He has no real friends and has an ambiguous sexuality. Benigno is a qualified nurse, makeup artist and hairdresser. Alicia is a Ballet dancer who is in a coma due to being in a serious …show more content…
They transform from being active objects to being passive subjects. Benigno, after nursing Alicia for years, finds that this accident is the only thing that allows him to ‘posses’ Alicia. We can see throughout flashback, when Alicia drops her wallet and Benigno does everything he can to return it, that he is totally in love and obsessed with Alicia but she seems uneasy about him and his intensity. In contrast to this Marcos feels that he has completely lost Lydia. He doesn’t feel that he can talk or communicate with Lydia. Flashbacks in this film are used to recount events that happened before the present event to fill the audience in on a crucial bit of information. Within Hable con ella there are many flashbacks that look at the past events that have taken place in the lives of each of the characters. During the flashback with Benigno and Alicia, it is the first and only real conversation that the two have had together. Benigno latches onto the few words that they spoke and the information he knew about her. When he finds out her interests are ballet and silent films, he starts to attend both. One of the films that he attends was ‘El amante menguante’. The film tells the story of a man and his lover. He takes a potion which instead of decreasing his weight, it results in him shrinking. He climbs beneath the bed clothes and is amazed by the
Hable con ella tells the story of two women in a coma as a result of their injuries and the men that are present in their lives during this time. The four main characters all play important roles in this film, but it is mainly centred around the life of Benigno. Benigno plays a huge part within this movie which leads to questions being asked about him. He has no real friends and has an ambiguous sexuality. Benigno is a qualified nurse, makeup artist and hairdresser. Alicia is a Ballet dancer who is in a coma due to being in a serious …show more content…
They transform from being active objects to being passive subjects. Benigno, after nursing Alicia for years, finds that this accident is the only thing that allows him to ‘posses’ Alicia. We can see throughout flashback, when Alicia drops her wallet and Benigno does everything he can to return it, that he is totally in love and obsessed with Alicia but she seems uneasy about him and his intensity. In contrast to this Marcos feels that he has completely lost Lydia. He doesn’t feel that he can talk or communicate with Lydia. Flashbacks in this film are used to recount events that happened before the present event to fill the audience in on a crucial bit of information. Within Hable con ella there are many flashbacks that look at the past events that have taken place in the lives of each of the characters. During the flashback with Benigno and Alicia, it is the first and only real conversation that the two have had together. Benigno latches onto the few words that they spoke and the information he knew about her. When he finds out her interests are ballet and silent films, he starts to attend both. One of the films that he attends was ‘El amante menguante’. The film tells the story of a man and his lover. He takes a potion which instead of decreasing his weight, it results in him shrinking. He climbs beneath the bed clothes and is amazed by the