After watching this film, I reminded myself that it’s important to learn history

Merle 2022-01-01 08:02:10

Like "Variant DNA", the whole story almost took place in one scene. The Spanish architecture and environment reminded me of the feeling of the beautiful legend of Sicily. The little boys are wearing white camisoles and look very similar to the way they run.
The degree of horror in this film is very weak, and even I, who have a very low point of shock, are hardly scared (although I deliberately choose to watch it during the day). So the horror in this film is not the first type, but politics.
Hearing from Bomi’s interpretation, I learned that the villain in this film represents one of the forces in the civil war (like General Franco). He was also an orphan before and grew up with an orphan, but he faced his compromises and compromises. The acquiescence of the masses below caused his atrocities, so the entire Ghost Boy's House is actually a microcosm of the Spanish Civil War. Mention of the unexploded missile in the middle of the orphanage is a metaphor for the majority of those who watched the atrocities in silence but did nothing.
For me who don't understand this period of history, it is also very interesting to read this story. You can see what the foreign revolutionaries look like. What the kids there like to play with, they found out that there are also clockwork frogs. This toy turned out to be a global hit, and it has been around so early; on the other hand, why the Yan Luoluo over there grows so big, they even use it while saying that it is disgusting Grab it with your hands, what else do you grab if it's disgusting! ? And a young man put one in his "treasure box". . I really can’t understand that the
good-faced old man drank the “medicine wine” made with a child in order to prevent impotence. It was permeating, and it felt a bit surreal.
The child carried the crucifixion of Jesus, and then complained, "Dead and toss people." It must be that the shadow of the top that grandma gave to the top when he was a child was too big.
I like the poster of this film very much.
I really like the young revolutionary chick in it.

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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

  • [first lines]

    [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.

  • Casares: Stay by my side as my light grows dim /as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain / as my heart grows weak / and the wheels of my being turn slowly / Stay by my side /as my fragile body is racked by pain /which verges on truth / and manic time continues scattering dust / and furious life bursts out in flames. Stay by my side / as I fade / so you can point to the end of my struggle /and the twilight of eternal days / at the low, dark edge of life.