Against the dim black background, only the faces of Anna and her sister Isabel emerged. Anna opened her eyes wide in surprise, moved her body involuntarily, and opened her mouth slightly for the same reason. On the rectangular screen in front of her, the movie "Frankenstein" is being shown. In the movie, the little girl meets Frankenstein, and she says to him: "Do you like my flowers?" "These are for you, these are for me. "You see, they're in the water, like boats." Victor Erice, director of "The Beehive", called Anna's series of reactions when she saw Frankenstein "an unrepeatable moment," and it didn't just belong in the movie , also belongs to the real Anna.
Anna believes what she sees. She can't tell the difference between good mushrooms and poisonous mushrooms. She is confused between reality and fantasy. Only she will ask Frankenstein why he killed the little girl, and will stay on the rails and stare at the speeding train. , will stare at the poisonous mushroom that should have been trampled to death like Dad, and only she will enter the abandoned dilapidated empty room again and again, so Frankenstein the Frankenstein only appears in Anna's world .
Everything that happened in this small village named Hoyeros is like an incomplete book page torn at random, the cause and whereabouts are hidden and unknown, and there are only fragments of myths. Fernando, the beekeeper's father, recites the description of the glass hive in his notes "...his face shows inexpressible horror...", the mother Teresa writes a love letter to a distant place, and the sudden appearance of silent soldiers jumping the train. Oh no, this soldier had an ending, he was killed. The corpse was covered with a blanket in the mansion where Frankenstein was being screened, revealing his feet with only one sock. In the movie "Frankenstein", Frankenstein's feet were also exposed with only one sock. In these silent, estranged, bewildering fragments, only Anna's gaze is eternal, and she strung them together to make up the story.
What exactly does Frankenstein mean in the movie? Is it the father? elder sister? Wounded freedom fighter? Maybe it's just another world that Anna, a child, builds with illusions and calls in a lonely world with nothing to rely on. Anna meets Frankenstein when she installs eyes on the odd-looking model Mr. Joseph.
There's a lot of footage of a window in The Hive, and it was talked about in a 1998 documentary about the film. The honeycomb-shaped hexagonal pattern on the window, honey-colored plexiglass. When it's closed, the room is like a hermetically sealed hive, shrouded in honey-hued light, and when it's open, the sun shines through the window. In fact, the whole movie, especially the indoor scenes, often see this honey-colored light, full and rich, very painterly.
Sister Isabelle is a girl who lives with the least illusion, realistic, witty, curious, mature, adventurous, like a black cat in her arms. But the most dreamy shot in the movie belongs to Isabelle, laughing and running through the fiery flames, leaving a ghostly silhouette. By the end of the film
, Isabelle's childhood is over, and she moves out of the room she shares with her sister Anna. And Anna stood in front of the hive window, calling out to Frankenstein softly. "If you're his friend, you can call him anytime. Close your eyes and call him. I'm Anna. I'm Anna." She was silent for a
while , then turned back and stared at the camera like a genie.
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