I'm not afraid of you

Beth 2022-01-01 08:02:10

After watching this movie, towards the end, the dead old man went to open the door for the helpless children, and at the end he stood in the shadows watching the children go away. I suddenly wanted to cry.
Yes, he did what he said. He stayed in this place forever all his life. With the woman he loves deeply.
The movie is not terrifying all the way. More are the ingredients of sadness. Even when the guilty man sank to the bottom of the water, the dead child hugged him and prevented him from surviving. I don't feel scared. It even felt that the child had been forgiven.
It was an era of turmoil, I can't imagine. I just felt disheartened when the explosion happened. But people are dead, and the adults on whom the children depended are dead. How do those children survive in this world.
But undoubtedly, the old man, the child and the woman in the film are all strong. I like that woman looking tremblingly at his beloved man, the man who did something wrong and threatened her with a knife. She said, I am not afraid of you.
I am not afraid of you.
I like this woman who exists as a goddess in the eyes of children.

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Extended Reading
  • Precious 2022-01-01 08:02:10

    The clear display of the desires of the five groups of characters makes the dramatic action from the external horror to the internal desire of the characters. In addition, a large number of symbols and plot metaphors have discussed the Spanish Civil War, subverting the audience's established impression of horror films. The most interesting passage is that the children killed the villains with spears, and the Spanish Civil War was the victory of Franco's Pike Party. This ending gave the audience more room for thinking.

  • Keith 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    The orphanage must have been cursed, and all horror movies love to polish it. Like "Orphanage", there is a momentary broken soul hidden under the cloak of horror. The lines are clear, the story is rich, and the characters are full.

The Devil's Backbone quotes

  • [last lines]

    Casares: [Carlos weeping over Casares returns his rifle to his side or lap as Jamie forces Carlos to get going]

    [voice over narration]

    Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.

    [last lines]

    Casares: [Owl is carried out by Jamie followed by Galvez using his spear as a crutch to join those others left]

    [narrating from beyond the grave]

    Casares: A Ghost

    [last to leave is Carlos looking back]

    Casares: That Is What I Am

    [Casarers now a ghost is at the doorway observing them heading out to the horizon]

  • Carlos: [stirring the water] Are you the one who sighs?

    [last lines]

    Carlos: [sneering at a scowling Jacinto] Santi

    [shoves him back into the pool, where the gold bars weight him down, struggling to discard them Santi suddenly drags him to the bottom]