there's a lot of borrowing from barber's adagio for strings, but YES the soundtrack is amazing, especially caetano's version of the andalusian song. as to the rape issue, the movie is too complex and multi-layered. i don't think that our vocabularies contain words to signify many of the things that happen in the movie. almodovar's stories take place in a world where words such as rape, love, death, murder and truth don't have much meaning. perhaps the only word that indeed retains its value in almodovar's realm is desire. in fact, his production company is called "el deseo". i saw the movie five times. my most memorable quote is chaplin's character's last line. wally
someone, i think fred, wrote: By the way, regarding Talk To Her and the Oscars, the real crime to me is that Alberto Iglesias' wonderful soundtrack was overlooked.
