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Marco (Dario Grandinetti), Talk to Her's other bereft male, is Benigno's opposite. He's a journalist who has fallen in love with a subject, a female matador named Lydia (Rosario Flores). Before her bullring goring, their relationship was the reverse of Benigno and Alicia's--relentlessly, often tormentedly verbal, because each was still emotionally involved with a previous lover. But now Marco sits mute and helpless by Lydia's bedside, articulating his pain only to his new friend Benigno...
...disagrees. "I live as closely as possible to the way I've always lived," he says, but he acknowledges that this is not easy. The character in Talk to Her he identifies with is not the bustling Benigno but Lydia, the bullfighter: "The relationship between the bull and the matador--it's full of intuitions. Each knows how the other feels; it is very mysterious. A director is similarly isolated, surrounded by a crowd in the middle of an arena. Nobody knows what's happening between him and the movie he's making...
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...short, after struggling past Ireland and failing to bump Korea in traditional fashion, they resorted to the national pastimes of making excuses. They may have somewhat of a point this time, but what about the other 16? The truth is that Spain plays with the flair of the promising matador that always fails to insert the sword in the neck of the bull in the first try, which is the mark of a good fighter. The Spaniards love to use the cape, but the close sight of the horns freezes them...
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