"Darkness gave me black eyes, but I use them to find light." For Andrew, a Catalan teenager, black bread was not only a staple after the war, but also a symbol of a black environment----he found Light, or fell into the abyss of darkness like our poets?
The habit of shaking the "wings" of the beautiful man who was forced to work, won Andrew's favor, because his father often inspired his love for freedom with the freedom of birds. The world is pouring out, and the father who is keen on raising birds and labor unions is undoubtedly a beacon on Andrew's life path. Authorities arrested his father on suspicion of murder, suspected of political persecution: Franco brutally suppressed the republicans after the war, nearly 100,000 people were massacred, and millions suffered lifelong discrimination.
This is not to say that the Republicans will be soft-hearted if they win. In dealing with internal differences, the republicans still fought brutally and attacked ruthlessly, and it goes without saying how ruthless they were towards the enemy. Through the image of the "victim" of Andrew's father, the director's grief flies three thousand feet: a better situation does not even exist, this is post-war Spain.
Going deep into the adult world constructed by lies, Andrew camps wherever he goes, where his doubts are, and his father's status as an idol gradually collapses; his childhood sweetheart cousin is quirky and quirky, lost his father and a palm in the civil war, and is cynical at a young age. She was flirting everywhere, and she could have sex with the teacher; in order to save her father, her mother took Andrew to the rich woman's house to show her pity, and tried to bribe the mayor sexually. After a long time, the father castrated an innocent homosexual with the tool of a gelding pig, and even accepted the instructions of a rich woman to kill and kill.
Even if his father murdered and committed the crime alone for the sake of Andrew's future, the latter could not forgive him. Close relatives who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality will do anything to achieve their goals, even children will not be spared. What is there to trust and fear in life? The disillusioned Andrew smashed his beloved bird cage with an axe, changed his mind, and made a clean break with the past; the beautiful man who didn't want to "elope" with Andrew hoped to be full-fledged and fly higher.
It seems that the stars are not last night, why is the wind dew for midnight? The devil in Andrew's heart began to wake up, and he was determined to recognize the thief as his father, and to get his degree first. The cousin asked angrily: "You traitor, how can you leave me alone?!" Andrew scoffed: "I can even leave my mother, how old are you?"
The black bread, which means ugly truth, is like black nourishment , in addition to spawning villains with distorted personalities and tendencies, but also creating elites who become more courageous and learn from the past: the cannibalism of the left-wing camp made George Orwell feel pained. In 1938, he published the classic document of the Spanish Civil War, "To Tribute to Catalonia", went to the desolate Jura Island in 1946, wrote the masterpiece "1984" that ended the myth of utopia in the bitter wind and rain; learned the lessons of countless blood, stood in the international column, Orwell, Sartre The Western New Left on its shoulders is more radical, and actively promotes the international community to prevent humanitarian disasters. The Kosovo War, UN Resolution 1793, and air strikes against Libya can all see the influence of the New Left's tough stance on the UN and NATO.
The teacher discussed that the dehumanized Cyclops in "The Odyssey" is a symbol of deformity and hits Andrew's weakness. From the beginning of the carriage falling off the cliff, Andrew truthfully telling the police the scene of the crime, to the ending without changing his face, he lied that his mother was a fellow villager who came to give him something, a simple and freedom-hungry boy in a mountain village turned into a well-dressed, heart-warming boy Tieshi's small ambition: yearning for the upper class, has a bright future. It's just that such a future is completely different from his earlier dream.
Villaroga, who keeps improving on props and backgrounds, is very capable of scheduling, controlling scenes and actors' performances. The two young actors who play Andrew and his cousin convey the entanglement and passion of life through subtle changes in expressions, and both won the Goya award. Best Newcomer Award. What is especially commendable is that the director, who has a thorough understanding of human nature and history, refuses any whitewashing, hypocrisy and hesitation. While satirizing the philosophy of winning and losing, he is unwilling to show cheap sympathy to the losers of the civil war. So heavy and atmospheric, it finally lived up to the exploration and sacrifice of its predecessors.
The so-called extremes will reverse, the situation is so bad that it cannot be worse, and it can only be improved step by step. Without the blood and gold of German and Italian fascists, Franco's rebels could not have won the civil war. Unexpectedly, at the outbreak of World War II, Franco crossed the river and demolished the bridge. He had a close relationship with the fascist camp economically and militarily. He was so angry that the Nazi German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop scolded Franco: "This ungrateful coward! We got it from us, and now we are unwilling to cooperate with us."
In 2008, the British "The Times" broke the news that Churchill had paid millions of dollars in bribes to Franco's generals to persuade Franco to remain neutral. Maybe. Perhaps, it was the bloody black bread of the Civil War that prompted Franco to wisely choose to watch the fire from the other side. The devastated Spain can't afford to hurt. (Xinmin Weekly)
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