 Allen's earlier film "Play it Again, Sam" featured liberal use of characters, dialogue and clips from the film classic "Casablanca" as a central device.The 2002 Pedro Almodóvar film "Talk to Her" ("Hable con ella") has the chief character Benigno tell a story called "The Shrinking Lover" to Alicia, a long-term comatose patient whom Benigno, a male nurse, is assigned to care for.The film presents "The Shrinking Lover" in the form of a black-and-white silent melodrama.