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Through the Eyes of Children, Tell the Wounds of Society

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In both The South (1983)  and The Spirits of the Beehive  (1973) , Erice enters the complex and imaginative world from a child's perspective, penetrating their innocent souls and guiding the audience to consider  the world through children’s  eyes ( Lindo, 2018 ).   Erice has a talent  to create an atmosphere of strangeness and mystery for his characters, and bring t his atmosphere envelops the audience and takes them to know Spain   (Lindo, 2018) . In The Spirits of the Beehive , Erice shows a damaged family under Franco's governance , while in The South , he portrays a father who has a failed life as a result of the Spanish Civil War conflict . Erice exposes the brokenness of the adult world by capturing the richness and intensity of emotions from child ren  perspectives ( Godwin, 2018 ). In The Spirits of the Beehive , Erice describes Spanish   people’s lives as oppressed as a bee in the hive of Franco's rule from Anna's perspective. And f...
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Dispel the Political Fog and Call for Resistance

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“ It confirmed my feeling that a film could be an act of resistance, and I ’ m deeply indebted to that experience. In my own way I try to continue to resist and use film in that way. ”   (Andrew & Erice, 2004) -- Victor Erice   When Erice  was asked if he admitted to liking the use of metaphor in his films, Erice did not answer  it outright, but he believed that in a time like that of Franco's dictatorship, cinema should serve as an expression of resistance and that he would take responsibility for it.     In that  era, the honeycomb window frame was the prison of the adult world, imprisoning the innocence of children   and made into honey and wax.  H owever, the young girl Anna is the best expression of rebellion against that  oppressive age  in the film The Spirits of the Beehive (1973) .   Anna lives in  a family made up of a bee-obsessed father, a valentine-missing mother, a cruel sister Isabelle , and s uch a fami...
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