¡Átame!

He’s doing his regular Almo thing here, and the point isn’t lost on me: heterosexual romance is no less crazy than the other less mainstream configurations he explored throughout the 80s… and to anyone who’s come this far with Almo, this film is thematically of a piece with everything that came before. It’s just not… as good a film. Anyway, if its subject matter is horrifying to me in any way it’s this: in several specific moments and in its overall theme, this has got to be an homage to Minnie and Moskowitz, and it has tainted one of the great loves of my cinematic life! Wow, M&M was a revelation to me on first viewing, forcing me to reconsider my own judgmental nature, to decide someone would really have to be as annoying and persistent as Seymour Moskowitz to force the Minnie in me into love. And here Banderas is just an exaggeration of that, literally tying his Minnie up until she caves in… Yes, it’s so much more twisted than I ever would admit it was, so thank you for that, Pedro. After all that I’ve managed not to say a single thing about the film, because it actually gave me very little in comparison to his others, so as much as anything I suppose that’s why I say it’s just not as good…