Through the Eyes of Children, Tell the Wounds of Society
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...