Talk to Her

The Film Talk to her is a Spanish Film from Spain Directed by Pedro Almodovar. It stars Javier Camera, Dario Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores. This Film is about two men who are both in love with women they don’t really know, but then are brought together by the tragedies that happen to these women.

One is Marco ( Dario Grandinetti) and Benigno (Javier Camera). Marco is a writer who is involved with Lydia, a female bullfighter (Rosario Flores) .He meet her as she was on the rebound from another relationship and then ridding her house of a snake. The relationship progresses from there but is doomed to fail because he lacks the ability to communicate with her. She is then Injuerd buring her bull fighting shows, and is in a como.

He soon becomes friends with Benigno, who tries to help him connect with Lydia through the como. Benigno suggests he just talk to her, though of course Marco telling Lydia about his thoughts and feelings was never the problem. As Marco trys to communicate with Lydia, Benigno communicates aswell with his patient Alicia as though she is fully cognisant of everything he says and everything going on around her. He is completly in love with her and has been since before her accident when he would stand at the window of the apartment he shared with his mother, and watch her in the dance studio across the street. He even tryed to talk to her in person but scared her away but once she’s in a coma he can talk freely to her about anything and everything and he convinces himself that by doing so they have developed a deep connection. He thinks there in the strong relationship that he violates the rules and sleeps with her while she is in the como. She ends up pregnet but loses the baby, and he is sent to jail. What he does is comptletly wrong but good comes out of it which makes it difficult to see Benigno purely as a villain.

This Film was very twisted it had its Crazy moments and its ok ones. in the film it talks alot of Relationships and the strange way people develop them as well as friendships. Shows how someone so lonely can make up this crazy idea in there head and really believe its going to go somewhere.