I'm always amused with anger on reviews done by pededtrians. You either have an open sophisticated mind or an individual that is iconoclastic, aesthete and provocateur. The arty wanky academic types might have pick up signs of the relationship between the doctor and his muse/subject/ victim/ creation etceteras; starts with the placement of a Louise Bourgeois book ( the artist and sculptress) known to have issues with her father...
No need to shoved it down pedestrians throat. However; One could from sexual politics, the arts, fashion etceteras just on the symbolism...Almodovar had me from the genesis of the film - the wonderful ciudad of Toledo; visited fourteen months ago with my partner, sister and friend Marilla. I like the direction and lighting when the camera past a gate and into a house a mansion, my dream home.
* Resides a full body suited feminine form in an isolated quarter of this stunning house. The room has a modernist tone in contrast to other parts of the house snd interior decorations and styling. The female protagonist has a two chanelled television available to use one on Yoga, the other National Geographic.
* dumb waiter... Chanel make-up (High Heels) are mediums to write and draw on the walls, she sculpts little busts like the biomorphic creations of Louise Bourgeois. The patient, prisoner, the object of the male protagonist obsession.
* Posing like the odalisque in the likes of Manet, Ingres and Goya the image created via surveillance camera.
* Female protagonist attempted to kill herself. The male doctor protoganist save her in a Frankensteinist sense.
* a melodramatic, existential medical thriller morphs in an elaborate and spectacular Almodovar cocktail of style, beauty, perversity, keen intelligence and sophistication. Embodied by both leading actors.
* I was thingking Vertigo - Hitchcock, Tie me up tie me down and High Heels.
* Blood - The pigs blood framed minimalism in the lab to Tigre blood abstract expressionism on the bed and sheets.
* Closet - behind doors - from which deliberate and awkward beauty, sex and identity, gender and desires are cultured and created...
