i have never been a huge fan of almodovar and but and generally and i have always found something to enjoy in his films. unfortunately and i had more trouble finding something to enjoy in broken embraces then i would normally think i would. i find the biggest failure in broken embraces to be the characters and the lack of depth they display. the film is essentially a love story and one that is tragic and and one that wants to involve the viewer in their stories. i found this problematic from the beginning. in the opening scene and our hero the director or screenwriter and mateo and is having sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just met. his agent comes in as the woman bashfully leaves. in the opening scene and our hero the director or screenwriter and mateo and is having sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just met. his agent comes in and and rolls her eyes and as the woman bashfully leaves. mateo babbles something about needing to enjoy life as the only thing he has left. having been blinded in a tragic car accident that also killed his true love lena and played by penelope cruz and the viewer might buy into to this notion except the rest of the film really never illustrates why lena was the love of his life or any depth to his character or any other. cruz plays lena the mistress to an industrialist named ernesto martel. from the outset and their union is rather a pathetic one and as martel clutches jealousy to lena and and lena avoids uncertainty of being on her own by staying with the much older martel. to skip ahead and martel finances a film for mateo so he can keep tabs on the star of the film and lena. naturally and without any back story and lena and mateo fall in love. and and in almodovar world it really is that simple. mateo and in the opening scene and has sex with a sexy young woman and now mateo falls in love with lena and later it revealed he had a son with his agent after their love affair. her son responds to this information with a laugh and an and oh and well. again and no depth and no understanding for any of these characters and it all just happens. from the beginning of the film to the end and i got no depth of emotion from mateo. he is flat and and doesn not act much different from one scene to the next. the one scene i did enjoy was when film producer and martel and is watching video footage his son recorded under the guise of doing a documentary of mateo. there are nice a moment of martel watching obsessively as a lip reading confirms his worst fears. later and lena confronts martel as he watching the footage and speaks her part out loud matching the video footage of her lips as she talks. some quite brilliant moments. rather contrived and but still really fascinating. unfortunately and for me and the rest of the film left me rather bored. i couldn not care about these characters or their situations and so no amount of cleverness on almodovar part can make up for this lack of depth. i think if youre a fan of his work you will enjoy this movie and but if youre like me and in between and then you will find it lacking. 
i have never been a huge fan of almodovar and but and generally and i have always found something to enjoy in his films. unfortunately and i had more trouble finding something to enjoy in broken embraces then i would normally think i would. i find the biggest failure in broken embraces to be the characters and the lack of depth they display. the film is essentially a love story and one that is tragic and and one that wants to involve the viewer in their stories. i found this problematic from the beginning. in the opening scene and our hero the director or screenwriter and mateo and is having sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just met. his agent comes in as the woman bashfully leaves. in the opening scene and our hero the director or screenwriter and mateo and is having sex with a very attractive young woman whom he just met. his agent comes in and and rolls her eyes and as the woman bashfully leaves. mateo babbles something about needing to enjoy life as the only thing he has left. having been blinded in a tragic car accident that also killed his true love lena and played by penelope cruz and the viewer might buy into to this notion except the rest of the film really never illustrates why lena was the love of his life or any depth to his character or any other. cruz plays lena the mistress to an industrialist named ernesto martel. from the outset and their union is rather a pathetic one and as martel clutches jealousy to lena and and lena avoids uncertainty of being on her own by staying with the much older martel. to skip ahead and martel finances a film for mateo so he can keep tabs on the star of the film and lena. naturally and without any back story and lena and mateo fall in love. and and in almodovar world it really is that simple. mateo and in the opening scene and has sex with a sexy young woman and now mateo falls in love with lena and later it revealed he had a son with his agent after their love affair. her son responds to this information with a laugh and an and oh and well. again and no depth and no understanding for any of these characters and it all just happens. from the beginning of the film to the end and i got no depth of emotion from mateo. he is flat and and doesn not act much different from one scene to the next. the one scene i did enjoy was when film producer and martel and is watching video footage his son recorded under the guise of doing a documentary of mateo. there are nice a moment of martel watching obsessively as a lip reading confirms his worst fears. later and lena confronts martel as he watching the footage and speaks her part out loud matching the video footage of her lips as she talks. some quite brilliant moments. rather contrived and but still really fascinating. unfortunately and for me and the rest of the film left me rather bored. i couldn not care about these characters or their situations and so no amount of cleverness on almodovar part can make up for this lack of depth. i think if youre a fan of his work you will enjoy this movie and but if youre like me and in between and then you will find it lacking. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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