Talk To Her

I liked Lydia. She was supposed to be the female bullfighter; a hero to women. She is courageous and heroic, as a bullfighter should be. However, she is terrified of snakes. In the romances we've read so far, there has always been a recurring theme of women playing the hero. In this film "Talk To Her", Alicia was one of these hero's and Lydia was the other. Both women had an extreme flaw to their heroism, though. Alicia's was that she was comatose (as well as Lydia later on) while Lydia's was that of her fear of snakes. The snake is always symbolic of evil or treachery. I thought that after Lydia saw the snake, it meant something bad would happen to her that dealt with El Nino, who was a treacherous snake. Marco kills the snake though, making him not only heroic, but a prevention of malicious things. Of course, once Lydia is in the comma, she can't be afraid and therefore, Marco's protection does little to nothing.