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The fourth theme is the one that I feel is rightly controversial and with which I have some difficulty. I buy it in part, but Almodovar takes it a further than I’m men's health prepared to travel and a whole lot further than some other folks will go. Almodovar seems to me to be preaching what I call the men's health “anything goes” mentality – that we men's health should resist making moral judgments about choices that people make. All About My Mother seems to be arguing that we serve each other best by simply supporting and accepting each other as we are, regardless of how controversial or risky lifestyle choices might be. I think that this part of Almodovar’s message is both the reason that the film was banned by the Catholic league and the basis on which Roger Ebert states that the film paradoxically expresses family values. Ebert is arguing that caring and supporting are the essential family values while the Catholic league would argue that family values must be based on standards of morality.
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