Favorite movie scenes 90

My favorite character in Almodovar's Carne trémula (1997) is the one played by Ángela Molina. She's trapped in a marriage to a cop who beats her -- and yet in her living room there's this huge wall-to-wall portrait of herself, denoting no self-esteem problems whatsoever!

One day she asks her husband, twice, "Why don't we split up?" The second time, he slaps her. "One day I'll stop being afraid, and I'll leave you", she says. Odiously, her husband claims that "It hurts me to beat you as much as it does you" (there's an argument I hadn't heard in years.) "All the more reason", she replies! :D

She puts all her hopes in an affair she's having with a younger man, who loves someone else, and is basically just picking Ángela's brain to learn how to become a better lover. She falls in love with him, and it's heart-breaking that once he's done with her he just wants out. She tries so hard to make some sense of her life, but nothing works.

Regardless, she finally gets the nerve to pack up her bags, and her husband tries to stop her, even though this time she's got a gun, and it's pointing at him. He stands in her way, saying, "Forgive me, dammit!" She says, "You're forgiven" and shoots him anyway! Brilliant.