
The 2002 Spain film Talk to Her is about a man named Benigno who becomes madly in love with a woman named Alicia that is in a coma. Benigno works as a caregiver at the hospital that Alicia is being held for her coma. In the movie Benigno befriends a man named Marco whose girlfriend Lydia (famous bull fighter) is also in a coma after being gored by a bull. The difference between Benigno and Marco’s situation is Benigno falls in love with Alicia while she is in a coma without having any physical or verbal contact with her.
In the film Marco is informed by Lydia’s ex lover that she had been cheating on him months before she was in her coma. Marco departs to Jordan where he plans to write a tourist guide. Meanwhile Benigno was sent to prison for raping Alicia and getting her pregnant while in her coma. Benigno thinks that he has done nothing wrong because he feels that the love between him and Alicia are mutual. Marco returns to Spain eight months later after discovering that Lydia dies in her coma and Benigno is in prison. Marco tries to help Benigno throughout his incarceration but all Benigno could think about is Alicia and his child. Benigno ends up dying of an overdose of pills because he wanted to put himself in a coma so that he could be with Alicia. Marco ends up moving to Benigno’s apartment where he discovers that Alicia is out of her coma.
The movie ends with Marco seeing Alicia at a dance concert and the two smiling at each other and turning to watch the concert. I believe that the theme of this movie is finding what true love really is. Although I strongly disagree with what the character Benigno did to Alicia in the movie, I believe that no one should be told who they should love or not love. This film contains a lot of new things that I have never seen in a movie. This movie was very interesting to me because it made me think outside the box. Although this movie did not have a happy ending for Benigno it made me think more critically of things. I was very curious at the end of the movie to see if the relationship between Marco and Alicia would progress into more than just seeing each other at a dance concert. Even though I like this movie it would have been interesting to see the reaction of Alicia finding out that Marco was the friend of the man got her pregnant while she was in a coma. Overall I really enjoyed this movie and I would definitely recommend others to see it.
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