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Live Flesh (1997)

Film
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
Meta takes3

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Form & technique
  • The film's framing scenes: Víctor's birth (1970) and his son's birth (1997) → National Allegory
  • The final scene where former antagonists form a new, unconventional family unit
  • The graphic and messy scene of Víctor's birth on a bus floor → The Abject Aesthetic
Tropes
  • David's paralysis and career as a paralympic basketball star
  • The plot's transformation from Ruth Rendell's novel to Almodóvar's film
  • The crisscrossing romantic and violent relationships between the five main characters
  • The power dynamics of looking, particularly involving the paralyzed David
  • The contrast between dark, cramped interiors and bright, open public spaces of Madrid → Cinematic Psychogeography

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