Julieta of Almodovar

Doing so many bad things to one's own heroine must be an emancipating feeling in fiction writing. Iconic colours and images are replete in this movie of different dramatic horrors all happening to one woman, one after another.

Julieta is a philologist. In her early twenties, she meets a guy and blah blah blah and falls in love. The blah blah blah comes back to us many more times in this movie. Right before he met her future husband, a man committed suicide on the same train as them. During this part of her younger self, she had more courage to do things alone, and for herself. She speaks of striking classical literary images in her classes. 'The sea' is one. 'El mar' is the Spanish word. It's such a milestone that you can feel the sound and the meaning in it, even as a non-Hispanic. 

Before Julieta and her husband decided to marry, his wife died. Before Julieta's husband died, Julieta made a homemade crepe. He died in the sea. Following this, she made friends with her husband's mistress who's a sculptor. Her sculpture named the sitting man is the mantra of the film. She makes them with her bare hands, by touching bronze. Similar to the crepe Julieta made. But that was only one time. Thirteen years later, her daughter decided to join a cult and run away. She never looked back. Her childhood friend, the lady in the picture, became an editor in a fashion magazine while Julieta's daughter was living a reclusive life, for religion. The religion being the Nazarenes of Spain. Julieta, who hasn't

 heard from her in 13 years, asked the fashionista girl in the picture how her daughter was when they last met: "She told me that she hated us and our lifestyle. She sounded like a fanatic". I am so scared of religious people. So scared that even this Almodovar film will stop me from falling asleep tonight.