what about parents? and what about bees?
what do you think?? Why is the father interested in bees? What is the meaning of the title of the movie?
share"The title, in fact, does not belong to me. It is extracted from a book -in my opinion, the most beautiful book ever written on the life of bees- by the great poet and dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck. In that work, Maeterlinck uses the expression 'the spirit of the beehive' to decribe the almighty, enigmatic and paradoxical spirit that the bees seem to obey, and which human reason has not been able to understand yet ". Víctor Erice, director of the film.
(I don't remember it very clearly and I don't have the DVD near me to check it, but I think there are a couple of images of the book on the film)
It seems that the house serves as a metaphorical beehive, with its yellow, honeycomb-like windows. Like Fernando's mechanical beehive it is under constant agitation...
That would make Ana the spirit...
A beehive is a closed structure where all the inhabitants have required duties and are expected to serve the greater good, without any personal desires or aspirations. Some would say that that is also a fair description of fascism. There is a debate among scholars weather "hive-mindedness" is a result of collective unconsciousness or conformity, as this film celebrates non-conformity it's a safe bet that the "beehive" is a thinly veiled allegory for Fascist Spain.
shareI like Raymond Carr's (2000) description of the film:
'The film...portrayed a depressed, listless village, under the surface of which, as beneath the lid of a beehive, a dynamic and restless society was growing'
The literature often describes this film as an allegory of the end of Franco's dictatorship: the uncertainty of the future, and the need to assemble the fragments of a painful and divided history to provide a space to dream of the possibilities of a future yet to come
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