Sad jackdaw

Peggie 2022-01-18 08:02:08

The Spanish movie "Raising the Crow" is the work of my favorite director Carlos Saura. I didn't expect him to be so paradoxical when he was not shooting Flamenco. It is said that if you raise a crow, it will peck you blind in the end. The 8-year-old Anna is the little crow referred to in the film. After her parents died, she was adopted by her aunt, but one night she put the poison into her aunt's milk glass.


The 8-year-old Anna has a unique temperament. Her clear eyes are like ice and snow in no man's land, her smile is like an angel, and she is cold and frosty when she is quiet. She is not as ignorant as her sister, naive, naughty, sleepy, she is always sober, so she always sees the truth, father’s affair, mother is tortured by depression and illness, aunt and father’s lover are kissing on the sofa, she can’t stop The crevices of the adult world darkened into her childhood, which made her inner thoughts have crossed ages, and even crossed the death line at the end of her life. She seemed to see herself falling from a tall building. So she understood the grandmother who was trapped in a wheelchair all day long, her grandmother always smiled, but she was looking at her old wedding photos on the wall full of old photos, tears in her eyes. Anna always sees her deceased mother coming over, joking with her, telling her stories, playing the piano for her, and the gentle candlelight of the past is intertwined with the cold and bleak reality. She and her sisters played home and put on a big sleep. The robe, blue eyeshadow, rouge on pink cheeks, and aunt’s wig, the lazy housewife looks so vivid, the precocious soul quickly joins in the tender body, making her pure, mature, kind and cold, But it makes people feel seamless and natural. Anna at that time was like the sad and light-paced song she hummed. She was originally just a young bird beside her mother but grew into a crow in grief. She took out the poison again and again, trying to kill her. Help grandma get free and punish guilty father and aunt.


It is said that the political metaphor of the film's mapping is quite obvious, but I just can't remember Anna's loneliness singing Porque te vas, and the time she spent sleeping in half of the piano music played by her mother's fingers.

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Cría Cuervos quotes

  • Ana: The only thing I remember very clearly, is that at the time, I was convinced my father was responsible for all the sadness that embittered the last years of my mother's life. I was convinced that it was he and he alone that had caused her illness and death.

  • Rosa: Your poor mother wanted to breastfeed you, but she was too pale and delicate. So I was the one who really nursed you.

    Ana: Did you breastfeed me?

    Rosa: Heavens, no. I gave you a bottle.

    Ana: You've got big breasts. Will you show me?

    Rosa: What do you think this is, a circus?

    Ana: Come on, show me! I'll close my eyes and count to five... Oh! They're so big!