Black Bread is the third Agustin Villayuga I've watched, and my impression of him being "ruthless" is becoming more and more clear.
The first two are "The Moon Child" and "The Sea". In "Moon Child", the teenager escapes from totalitarian rule and descends as the child of the moon in primitive civilization, but the way to escape and go to the Holy Land is paved by the deaths of countless people around the teenager. Any waves, it seems, are all reasonable and full of religious sacrifice. A documentary I watched before, "Children of Terrorists", the father in the film is Abu, a sniper and mine clearance expert from the Nusra Front (terrorist organization), and all his children's names are related to terrorism. He teaches the children Reciting the Koran while letting a child as a child witness the murder. Children have been imitating and training to kill by killing animals since childhood. Even if they kill, in Abu's words, this is also Allah's will. If Allah asked him to sacrifice his own son, he would agree without hesitation.
"The Sea" is a naked blood sacrifice film. The church hospital that houses boys infected with tuberculosis is a symbol of the Spanish authoritarian society. These boys who are struggling with tuberculosis are all young men. They are clean, sunny and handsome. These sunshine make them look infinite. The hope of life, the director is also ruthless, so that some young people who are in their prime struggle to die in the pool of blood spit out due to tuberculosis cough, and some die in the pool of blood of cannibalism. Friends who watch the movie have said that it reminds people of Lu Xun's man-blooded steamed buns. The era at that time was the era of eating human-blooded steamed buns, and the director presented that era to you nakedly, seeing blood and killing people.
Then there is "Black Bread". Compared with the previous two films, the story is more complete. The green color close to black fills the whole film, and the director's ruthlessness in the film is also more obvious. The structure of the opening chapter is the same as that of "The Sea". There are two deaths. The first time the murderer smashed the head of the deceased with a stone next to the carriage, and the second time, the body of the deceased and the son of the deceased were pushed off the cliff together with the horse. Speaking of Andrew, the corpse of the murder case was found, but the father he had always admired was the suspect. Andrew lived in the lies of the adults. The loving father taught Andrew not to give up his hopes and dreams, but he secretly accepted the rich woman's instructions more than once. kill. This greatly satirizes the disputes between parties in the Spanish Civil War, especially the Republican Party. It seems to be upright and has established an image of justice, but in fact, it has done too many things that go against humanity for the interests of its own party. When the truth gradually came to light, Andrew's father was shot, and his father took advantage of not exposing the rich woman to win a better chance for Andrew to live, and was adopted by the rich woman to attend a church school. Even before Andrew's choice, his mother emphasized the role of the rich woman and that the rich woman was the main messenger who instructed Andrew's father to kill. Andrew still accepted adoption and went to a church school. When his mother visited him at the mission school, he told his classmates that he was just a village woman who came to deliver things for him. Andrew abandoned his relatives, parents, and the freedom and dreams he insisted on in order to live. Because, at this moment, he only believes that history belongs to the winners, and the losers don't even have footnotes.
Speaking of the name "Black Bread", for Andrew, a Catalan teenager, black bread is not only a staple food after the war, but also a symbol of the black environment. Andrew seems to have gotten rid of black bread, but there is also a world of white bread. Also an abyss.
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