January 10, 2007
SHOULD I MAKE THE TEXT A DIFFERENT COLOR WHEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, COMEDY?
Not a routine:
By making the murder such a cock-up, and omitting the obligatory police visit, Almodovar asks us to forget the murder as an actual act, and to focus instead on what animates the characters: anger, a hunger for retribution and the need for forgiveness. Put differently: for eighty percent of the movie, you’re not even sure that Raimunda’s mother isn't a ghost. Dull realism and its brothers in facticity are all off the table the minute Raimunda manages to lift Paco, all by herself, into the fridge.