In standard noir plotting, Enrique is soon interrupted by the arrival of an unanticipated visitor from his past.
But it seems a safe bet that not many viewers will identify with Bad Education's fantasy sequences, which feature fairly explicit and decidedly degrading sex between numerous male characters.įrom the talented and celebrated Almodóvar (whose All About My Mother won a Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1999 and whose Talk To Her won Best Original Screenplay in 2002), Bad Education begins in 1980s Madrid, where a successful young director, Enrique Goded, peruses the tabloids in search of a storyline for his next film. Toward the end of Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education (in Spanish with English subtitles), a former priest, now married with children, emerges with his young male lover from viewing a classic film noir and comments, "It's as if the films were talking about us." The point, made implicitly earlier in the film and explicitly here, is that the fantasies unleashed in film noir afford viewers more than an outlet for their own suppressed yearnings: They offer a precious, if unnerving, self-knowledge.
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