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Laurine 2022-06-22 14:16:04
Rewatch. Mysterious and thrilling, the most terrifying moment in the world is the moment when a child realizes death. Fingers touch mushrooms, sparks burst, gunfire and Frankenstein by the water. The honeycomb window frame is the prison of the adult world, confining the innocence that destroys overnight and never can be traced into the honey and wax of...
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Buddy 2022-06-22 10:48:10
7.8/8.0 More than once, I recall the eyes of the little girl Ana in the film, helpless and confused. Children are spiritual creatures, they can feel more things. They interpret everything in a most sincere and direct...
The Spirit of the Beehive Comments
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Tina 2022-12-05 17:57:01
color of mysticism
A surreal artwork full of mysticism. Victor Ellis' mastery of color is top-notch, which has been shown to the world in "South". And this film is more obscure and dreamy than "South". In the period of Franco's dictatorship, under the depressing living environment and the family relationship that is...
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Robyn 2022-12-04 00:48:52
Children's Observation from an Inside Perspective
First of all, I am reluctant to look at this film from the perspective of purely political metaphors. Such a film thesis will treat the entire film as a boring riddle, with beautiful mystery, the answer to the mystery, and nothing else left, which is almost perfect for this film. Saying it is an...
The Spirit of the Beehive quotes
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Ana: [about a mountain where a lot of mushrooms grow] Why don't we go there?
Fernando: It's too far, we would never make it with you weaklings. We will go sometime.
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Isabel: Take the brush and you wash your face with it. Then put soap on it.
Ana: [lathers up her face] Then I shave off all my little hairs?
Isabel: [laughs] Yes. Then when you're done you put on cologne.
