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High Heels (1991)
★ 7.0 · 459 ratings on TMDB
A mother, a daughter, a lover. Relationships can be murder.
After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
The emergence reading
High Heels keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
