Dispel the Political Fog and Call for Resistance
“ 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...