memory ghost

Garett 2022-11-12 02:18:24

One early morning at the end of September, I remember it was a Friday, when the school was delayed and the online classes were still at home, and I watched this movie in class.

While watching, I was absent-minded, dull and empty. Near the end, I was silent for a few minutes, maybe a few minutes, then the movie ended and I turned off the player and lay back in bed. I have forgotten most of the plot now, but there are always some reasons, the hive, the wilderness, Frankenstein, the backs of children on the railway, they are like ghosts in the film, and I often think of them inadvertently. They are so clear.

I still don't know the social meaning of the film's expression, and those scenes are just symbols for me, but they have the ability to bring me back to that early morning, to that period of time in the past.

Memory is like a ghost, it haunts life.

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The Spirit of the Beehive quotes

  • Ana: [unable to sleep] Isabel?

    Isabel: [opening her eyes] What?

    Ana: [whispering] Tell me what you were going to tell me.

    Isabel: [whispering] About what?

    Ana: The movie.

    Isabel: Not now... Tomorrow.

    Ana: Now... You promised. Why did he kill the girl, and why did they kill him after that?... You don't know - you're a liar.

    Isabel: They didn't kill him, and he didn't kill the girl.

    Ana: How do you know? How do you know they didn't die?

    Isabel: Everything in the movies is fake. It's all a trick. Besides, I've seen him alive.

    Ana: Where?

    Isabel: In a place I know near the village. People can't see him. He only comes out at night.

    Ana: Is he a ghost?

    Isabel: No, he's a spirit.

    Isabel: Like the spirit Dona Lucia talks about?

    Isabel: Yes, but spirits have no bodies. That's why you can't kill them.

    Ana: But he had one in the movie. He had arms and feet. He had everything.

    Isabel: It's a disguise they put on when they go outside...

    Ana: If he only comes out at night, how can you talk to him?

    Isabel: I told you he was a spirit. If you're his friend, you can talk to him whenever you want. Just close your eyes and call him... It's me, Ana... It's me Ana...

    [they hear what sounds like ominous footsteps and are silent]

  • Isabel: Papa, have you ever picked a bad mushroom?

    Fernando: No. You know why?

    Isabel: Why?

    Fernando: Because I always do like my grandfather told me.

    [he gets up and starts to walk; the girls follow]

    Fernando: If you're not sure a mushroom's good, don't pick it. Because if it's bad, and you eat it, it's your last mushroom and your last everything too.