The Devil's Backbone Comments

  • Stanford 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    3.5; Greed leads to death. . . "What is a ghost? A ghost is a constant, recurring, tried-and-true tragedy. Maybe a painful moment of something that's dead but seems to be alive, an emotional stillness in time, like a blurry picture, Like an insect imprisoned in...

  • Adrien 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    Why did the Chinese take part in the Spanish Civil War?...

  • Darrion 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    Where people's lives are taken care of, the sky is always difficult to meet people's expectations. If you can't let go of your resentment, you will die. If you learn to accept it, you will gain hope. In the last revenge scene, the children held sharpened wooden sticks, at first cautiously, but then resolutely, like pushing a wild boar to complete their mission. In the last scene, the injured children supported each other and walked into the distance in different postures. That scene was really...

  • Justina 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    It turned out to be the director of Pan's drama. Here, the meaning of ghost is extracted and interpreted, but its root is a kind of obsession. Because of attachment, I can't let it go, I can't go, so I stay, so I want revenge, but I have a grudge. In people's memory, everything that lasts for a long time, good and bad, memory, can be said to be a ghost-like...

  • Dejuan 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    Cruel and painful masterpiece, more than Pan's labyrinth. What is a ghost, a time trapped in amber, a repeated tragedy, a soul that should leave early but stay...

  • Rosario 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    (7.5) Top has always been fond of using various symbols and metaphors, but recently it has gotten out of control, and the earlier works are more restrained and full of fun. This fantasy style is hard to find in British and American films. It is also the reproduction of the Spanish-Latin American literary tradition on film, and it is also its most attractive...

  • Vincenzo 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    Worse than Pan. As a Mexican, the director always shoots Spanish stories, much like Taiwanese (or Singaporeans) always shoot Chinese stories. The Spaniards inside are very similar to Hemingway, I don't know if Hemingway is...

  • Stefan 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    I don't quite understand why the score on IMDB is so high... I wasn't frightened at all, and didn't arouse any other emotions. Could it be that I'm...

  • Katherine 2022-03-27 09:01:11

    Some people say the movie is way better than Pan's Labyrinth, I don't think the...

  • Marcelle 2022-03-27 09:01:11

    War and children, the subject of silent grief, the limping back of the children at the end, the doctor who guards them in heaven, the dead girl (like an adult version of Ofelia indeed), death permeates the whole screen, waiting for the children It is a battlefield of...

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

    The doctor is the highlight of the whole show

    I didn't expect the film to be so good

    From the beginning of the monologue to the final echo, I feel that the doctor is great. Alas, the doctor knows Carmen’s betrayal but waits for her until the final promise to the child after his death. He is indeed a gentleman, but the initials on the...

  • Dina 2022-01-01 08:02:10

    Revolutionary film

    In the early works directed by Pan Shen Maze and HELL BOY, it seems that this fat man began to sing the proletarian revolution with a supernatural skin as soon as he debuted. Even if it is a ghost film, I don’t forget to criticize feudal superstition. The most brilliant detail is the deformed baby...

The Devil's Backbone quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Santi: Many of you will die.

    Santi: [to Carlos touching his face] Bring Jacinto To Me

  • [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]