Saturday, July 25, 2009

Talk to Her

Talk to her is a Spanish film made in 2002 by Pedro Almodovar and stars Javier Camara and Dario Grandenetti. Alicia is played by Leonar Watling. Benigno is a hospital nurse who gains a crush on a girl that he meets in the street close to his apartment. She is a student at a dance studio, Alicia. Alicia drops her wallet one day and Benigno picks it up, chases her down and returns it to her. Then she walks away and he continues following her to see where she goes. She went into her fathers place who happens to be a physchiatrist to Benigno makes an appointment so that he could go up there and possibly run into Alicia again to talk to her or ask her for a date.

Benigo has his one appointment with the doctor and then Alicia gets into an accident and winds up in a coma in the very same hospital that Benigno works at. Benigno also happens to work with coma patients and those who are paralyzed and cleans and feeds them and stuff. He used to take care of his mother when he was a younger boy so is used to this type of work.

Beningo becomes friends with a man named Marco whose girlfriend is also in a coma at the same hospital. She was a bullfighter and lost her latest fight and is now in the coma. Benigno talks to Marco about how he saw him recently at the theatre and how they have something in common now, the love for a woman who is in a coma.

Marco finds out that his girlfriend was cheating on him and gets upset to the point where he decides he should stop visiting so oftern. Benigno tells Marco how he met Alicia and talks to her everyday and loves her but never got to tell her. Marco leaves to take care of business but trys to keep in touch with Benigno. Marco finds out that Benigno gets arrested for raping Alicia and getting her pregnant while on the job.

Marco goes to investigate if Alicia is still alive and if the pregnancy went through or if their was complications while Benigno sits in jail. Marco discovers thtat the baby did not survive but that Alicia had woken up from her coma. Marco does not tell Benigno that Alicia is no longer in a coma for fear of what Benigno might do knowing that his love is out and about and he is stuck in jail.

Benigno still kills himself anyway. Marco takes Benginos apartment and follows Alicia around. The movie ends with Marco sitting two row ahead of Alicia in a theatre, turning around smiling and then turning back around.

This movie had a strange scene in it where the man had an shrinking problem and then walked into the(proportionate to him) giant womans vagina. I thought this scene standed out as the wierdest part of the film. The overall story was quite good and i could sympathize with Benigno and wished something more positive could have happened for him in the end. If he had known that Alicia was still alive and no longer in a coma then he probably would have still had the will to live.

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