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First of all, congratulations, that's what I call a flaming message, and people with an unleashed tongue like yours are who make imdb message board spicy.

Ok, you don't like Almodóvar, but please, don't compare it with Amenábar: "normal" films? Just because of the aseptic sexuality in his movies? Maybe Almodóvar has a lot of a gentle lady from La Mancha, but at least he just makes movies as he feels it and he doesn't try to parasite THE OTHERS' personalities as director.

As the woman I assume you are from your user name, maybe you can't identify to Almodóvar's perception, but it isn't in any case a transexual's view, and if you pay attention to his filmography you will find a wide palette of women.

And unfortunately, one's gender and sexuality will remain a modern issue as long as society isn't that modern and open-minded.

I agree with the "melodramatic" and "camp" attributes - sometimes the first one annoys me, I always enjoy the last one!

Sounds like cornelia123 desperately seeks a sex change :)

Do you live in the Bible-belt? Or are you just an uneducated moron?

You clearly need to see more films like this to learn what real life is like for people who exist outside your little insular straight world, even if the portrayl is steeped in typical "almaldovarisms". Gender is still an issue when one steps outside their home. And if you were gay, (or bothered to open your mind to expieriences other than your own) you'd know there is an intrinsic link between women and gay men, that is not based in latent transexualism, but rather an identification with being marginalized by archaic minds and power structures. It is called an ALLIANCE, and Almaldovar has every right to embrace this relationship and explore it as an artist. Bravo to him, boo hiss to you.

Wow cornelia123... judge much?

I personally disagree with you mostly on your "unmodern notions of womanliness" trip towards Almodóvar. I think his depiction of women, especially of transgendered or transexual women is thoroughly modern, and some might even say postmodern. A lot of gender theory now centers around the "trans" issue of sexuality because those who are trans are putting on a gender performance (i.e. they are acting as society says a woman should in order for society to accept her as a "true" woman), which adds a whole new level of complexity to the idea of gender and of gender identification. This brings to the forefront that the notion that gender is a representation, and therefore a learned behavior, not something that is inherent within each of us, like some would lead you to believe. I would actually say that Almodóvar is a bit ahead of the times as far as discussing "what it is to be a woman" in his films.

Word of advice, cornelia123... try being completely sure of what you're talking about before you start saying it. Otherwise, you just make yourself sound like an idiot.