Word: ignacioã
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...Almodovar’s graceful balancing between damaged identity and cinematic fantasy is the film’s greatest accomplishment. The film-within-the-film prepares us for this trapeze act as it poses as Ignacio??s back-story, but turns out to be itself a fiction film—a kind of aggrandizing simulacra of Ignacio??s identity. After we are shown that Ignacio??s flashbacks are no more than an imaginary cinematic representation, Almodovar is able to effectively coincide his look at Ignacio??s childhood into...
...Education utilizes the typically Almodovarian production schemes, quirky dialogue, ambiguous moral codes and post-feminist politics to create a cinematic space that is more usefully reflexive than his past work. As the film moves toward and comments upon the post-modern “reality” embodied in Ignacio??s development, Almodovar productively pushes the envelope as he weaves in and out of and ultimately combines a variety of modern narratives that have shaped Ignacio??be they cinematic, queer, performed or socio-political...
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