Jingyi Hu

Jingyi Hu

27 Feb. 2023

Absence of masculinity, Dislocation of identity, Castration theory, Emotional alienation, Female subject.

Director Almodovar's artworks have overturned the marginal role of women as the "seen other" in the traditionally constructed gender field of cinema, freeing women from the categories designated by patriarchal society and allowing them to assume the discourse of the film space as subjects. The sadness and loneliness conveyed throughout the film "Julieta" is the panic of women who lose their words in the face of the "absence" of men. The reconciliation of women's relationships at the end of the story indicates that women's awakening always points to self-reconciliation and the establishment of the subject, rather than the feminine consciousness given by patriarchal society.

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