Hive Ghost, Reivew on The Spirit of the Beehive

This film is the representative work of Victor Ellis. The film takes place in the 1940s. He is fascinated by the father of the closed structure of the hive, the mother who is empathetic and indifferent to the family, the evil sister, the occasional maid, After the ignorant Anna played "Frankenstein" in a small town, the film gradually fell into a slow, quiet but gradually mysterious atmosphere. The poisonous mushrooms, the bloodstains in the abandoned house... let Anna gradually understand fear and death and bid farewell to her carefree childhood in advance. In terms of shooting techniques, the film's special children's perspective is suspenseful, and the means of creating an atmosphere are more difficult than adults' perspectives. From the surrounding clues that children can touch and understand, they can obtain suspicious fragments and piece together incomplete information. The uncertain factors of the imagination space form an alternative suspense in this film. And more importantly, the film is obviously not just a show of skills to tell a story, the film buried some hidden lines of the story, including the killing of the deserter in the second half of the film, the father's work is about to come out, and his fascination with the hive is there Very good professional basis, the mother's lack of closeness and empathy also have possible explanations, and the sister's non-rejection or even attempt to death is an inevitable and terrible trend, and the whole film creates this kind of depressing strange semi-closed The environment is almost the projection of Franco's transformation of the Spanish regime in the 1940s. This way of telling the story of the light and dark lines and the virtual and the real is the pinnacle of similar films.

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