A while ago, I missed Saharah, which left boundless myth to me. (Saharah directed by Breck Eisner and based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler.).
On 28th August, the first release of Broken Embrace, I couldn’t afford to let it slip over my finger again.
Watching Broken Embrace is a complete 129 minutes of restless journey. The plot, the love, jealousy, the most unique is that it is about “a film in the film”. Fourteen years struggles since a car accident, the writer lost his lover, Lena and his sight. Since then he not only denied his image as a film director, but also adapted a playful pen name to be a writer. However, this doesn’t stop his love towards Lena through his book writing in the dark.
One day the local newspaper reported a famous tycoon’s death. Subsequently a man named himself X-Ray knocked on the writer’s door with a recognized voice. 14 year’s peaceful life has been broken by this strange ma.
The writer’s devoted literature agent felt guilt in the dark too. Because she thought it was her who revealed the escaped couple’s hotel telephone number to the tycoon which caused the car incident. After a brief affair with the writer before, she had a son from him, who was hidden from him and their son for years. Holding your breath only come to the end of the film, it came out that the car incident was not a plot but genuine.
Repeated shot is broken photos that recorded the romantic stories between the writer and his lover. Re-live memorial love is such a painful process, none intends to do so. However, it is so necessary to filter negative images through. In the dark Conner, wish lovers who are not struggled any more. Open our free arms, embrace the broken heart, to forgive and to love.
Starring Penelope Cruz and directed by Pedro Almodovar.
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by wendywu
Filed under: Culture and Arts, watching film
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