spirit of the beehive
Question Three The film The Spirit of the Beehive touches on a few different aspects of life and the world. Not only does it question reality itself but also fantasy. Ana becomes lost in the two worlds of real and unreal during this movie. In the beginning of the film, the movie Frankenstein is played for the village to see and this spikes Ana’s curiosity. Ana questions her older sister about the movie and the Frankenstein monster and her sister tells her the monster isn’t dead in fact it’s a spirit. Ana spends most of the film visiting an abandoned barn where her sister has led her to believe that’s where the spirit lives. Ana is told that she can’t see the spirit she just has to believe and call to it. Later on in the film when a soldier from the war uses the barn as shelter Ana believes it’s the spirit. It’s at this point in the film where Ana’s worlds really combine. She starts to lose sight of what is reality and what is fantasy. From a viewer’s standpoint it is possible to lose sight of that as well. I have a hard time agreeing with the idea that “everything in a film is fake,” especially in The Spirit of the Beehive. This film plays with what is real and what is fake in many different ways. Most of these ways we watch through Ana. I don’t think the film itself is “fake” just because it contains objects outside of reality. Ana meeting the soldier in the barn is probably the most serious claim for imagination in the film. Ana truly believes that this random soldier is the spirit she has basically been worshipping all movie long. When her father plays the pocket watch at the table you can see the distress on Ana’s face. It’s almost like she knows what has happened and blames her own father. At this moment in the film you really have to open your eyes to what reality really is. These two worlds of fantasy and real life almost combine into reality. Ana thinks that her father has destroyed this spirit and in reality it wasn’t