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Vicky Christina Barcelona: Film Analysis
“I feel like there are so many emotions inside me and I have to let it out.”
This is just one of the lines from the movie that instantly caught me.
I’ve always been that type of person ever since. When watching movies or TV series or listening to songs or reading books and other reading materials, what I get to absorb all the time are the lines or the words used in the particular medium. I’m actually a “word” person and the more the words in a film for example fits together to create a wonderful meaning, the more beautiful it becomes to me. Or sometimes, even simple lines can really get to me. I think that depends on what I am feeling at the moment. Or my “connection” to what the particular medium is saying or relating to me. I’ve always been a fan of words and the way they create that complex connection with someone just fascinates me.
I think that is a vital reason why I took an instant liking to the film Vicky Christina Barcelona.
Vicky Christina Barcelona is an indie-film written and directed by Woody Allen. Allen is a renowned American screenwriter and director and has been known for his works that revolves around the heavy theme of literature, philosophy and sexuality.
Those themes were quite present in Vicky Christina Barcelona.
The film showcased three of the most beautiful faces in Hollywood. Well for me they are. The casting was perfect because Allen chose three pretty artists; Penelope Cruz, being so gorgeously hot when she enters a scene and makes Scarlett Johansson, seductive golden-haired with ample cleavage and all, look plain and the hunky “romantico” type Javier Bardem (Romantico because I would always remember him in this film as someone who I can consider as a passionate, deep kind of person who is very much locked to his emotions and his other character in Love in the Time of Cholera. I don’t know but I could sense something “romantic” and “suave” in his voice. It kinda allures women in a different way. Oh, well. Whatever.). Rebecca Hall is also good on this film but I personally do not like her. Or I guess her character in the story. Haha.
Vicky Christina Barcelona is a movie set in the lovely town of Barcelona in Spain where Vicky (Rebecca) together with her best friend Christina (Scarlett) decided to spend the summer. There, they get to meet a handsome, artist / painter Juan Antonio (Javier).
Vicky and Christina, both characters that one could easily predict, were coming from two opposite side. Though best friends since college, they agree on almost everything except for the concept of love. Vicky is a bright and cautious girl who values relationship and commitment more than anything. While Christina, on the other hand, is a sexually adventurous lady, an artist and an alluring passionate person, who knows what she doesn’t want in a relationship which Vicky values the most. And then they meet Juan Antonio and that is basically how the story revolved, with the involvement of Maria Elena (Penelope) in the story as the weird, crazy but very daunting and beautiful ex-wife of Juan Antonio.
The movie is a simple story of sexuality, art, literature and I could say passion as well. The movie is not something as complicated as any other movie out there but what I like about it is the fact that in an eccentric way, I can relate to Christina. I don’t know if that is a bad thing. But with me being honest to myself, I can see myself in her; in ways though not totally like her.
The movie is executed in a simple manner though I know there are some weak points in it. Like for example, who the hell is the narrator, right? What is his connection to the film? And why the heck does Vicky studies Catalan identity when she can’t even speak Spanish in the first place? But those are just points that I would like to point out.
Vicky Christina Barcelona is an acclaimed award-winning piece for me. It has captured something inside me that made me think and ask myself, am I what I really am?
It is nothing but moving. It has created a whole new perspective of how passion, emotions and feelings can be so moving.
Kudos, VCB! =)
(Source: iamzee)
