Near the end after Ana runs away from her father and eats the mushroom, she goes by a lake and sees Frankenstein. Then after they find her and the doctor and her mother are talking, the doctor says something about a "traumatizing experience". What was the experience he was talking about? I'm still a bit confused....
shareThe film didn't show her actually eating the mushroom. She touched it, but then the film cut to the next scene.
I think the traumatizing experience is realizing the person she befriended had been killed. But what is going on is probably much more complex than this simple answer...
Ana also believes that her father must be responsible for killing her new friend, as the villagers in Frankenstein killed the monster, because he has the soldier's watch. But the doctor and her parents don't really know exactly what Ana has experienced, since she won't talk. All they know is that she seemed to know that the soldier was in the barn, she ran away, she spent the night out in the cold, and somehow it's profoundly affected her as she acts like she's in shock.
shareI logged on to make that point frightwig71. I was thinking about this movie and realized what the poster just wrote. Ana ran because she linked the blood and the watch to her father. I also realized something else. The Dr. the Mother and the Father asume she was sexually molested just as in the "Frankenstein" and another point. The mom burns a letter after Ana is missing. She now has her priorities in check. If it was me and my daughter had been meeting some stranger in the woods I would make darn sure I brought no strange men into my life.
shareDoes the scene where the mother burns the letter occurs between Ana eating the mushroom and the search party sent for her? The letter was addressed to someone in France, which was a common destination for the exiles of the Civil War. Being politically opposed to the father, perhaps the mother sees the shooting of the Republican soldier as a sign that her continued correspondence or even association with the politically questionable as something too risky?
"Ana also believes that her father must be responsible for killing her new friend, as the villagers in Frankenstein killed the monster, because he has the soldier's watch."
No, that's not correct. She very well may believe that her father is responsible for the soldiers death, however, he does not have the soldiers watch. Ana brought the soldier her fathers jacket, and inside the pocket was the watch. It was her fathers watch to begin with.
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She didn't know it was his...
shareThough Ana lost trust in her sister and after that, by an unlucky misunderstanding, in her father, in the end Ana is still standing.
She is not defeated.
Hi.
I totaly think the experience was having a trip on a magic mushroom! In the film the father warns the girls about 'bad' mushrooms and says they will kill them but really I think he is just being a normal father and doenst want his daughters to be drugys. She then eats this 'bad' mushroom though we dont see it becuase under General Francos rule in Spain when the film was made you couldnt show things like drug taking. SO the girl has a trip and halusinates frankinstine. This is the traumatic experience and why she is being wierd and not looking at people.
I took it to be the death of the soldier which was Ana's only friend. Ana had her sister, but her sister had her own friends and Ana's parents just about ignored her.
And wasn't it the father's watch that was in his coat which Ana brought to the soldier?
Yes, the watch did belong to the father, but Ana noticed the soldier had it and seemed content to let him keep it. When her father (obviously not the poorest man in the ares) had retaken his jacket and watch, Ana realized her father was complicit in the death of the soldier she had befriended.
shareWe can't see her take drugs because the move was made under General Franco's rule? I'm pretty sure the movie was made in the 70s but took place in the 40s. If the regime can't let you make a movie with drugs in it, I doubt Franco would like a movie critiquing himself.
shareFranco ruled until his death in '76. It was his use of subtlety and vague imagery/metaphors that allowed Erice to make his critiques.
shareI think ana created a fantasy of frankestein in soldier and when she realised he is dead and connected it with her father(as she saw the watch in the hand of father which she gave to soldier),she ran away because she was shocked by the death of her friend.
i think she thought of eating mushroom to end her life but she failed to do so(director did not clear what happened,as he give us the room for imagining by our self).the movie ended with a very touching scene,when she call her imaginary friend and she turned and saw towards us(with her pretty face),which makes us feel of her pain.