Notes on a women’s director Pedro Almodovar and female psychology

Abstract

Contemporary paradigms of women's roles and their conceptualisation have always been present in many works of art, from paintings, sculptures, architectural spaces, and music to the visual appearance of female roles in cinema. An unconscious patriarchal society has built the image of women in the structures of film language and the film world. The idea of the passive object of women has always been present in films from the beginning. Is this a question of gender equality or the pure artistic expression of directors' ideas? In the system in the past, in which it was not even a question of who would be the central role of the action, the main idea of the research work is to discover what has happened with the female film roles in the society we are living today, what has happened to women? Is she still the object of desire and a passive shadow in the patriarchal film language? The research analyses will be based on Pedro Almodovar's films, as he is the director who has never had the silent image of women in his movies, who was always controversially honest in building his characters of brave women, women who are dominant in their independence. What is the method of manipulating visual pleasure, aesthetic sense of ways of seeing, and pleasure in gazing at a woman through the eyes of a male filmmaker in the twenty-first century? This research aims to analyse the inherent complexity of female identity as it is experienced under contemporary and dangerously revived forms of male dominance. The methodology that was taken in this study was both contemporary and historical, and it paid particular attention to psychoanalytic studies of the dominant subconscious of society as well as misogyny in our community.