Impact of Media on Youth and Children Assignment PDF
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SPANISH FILM
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1Film critique...........................................................................................................................1Impact of media on youth and children..................................................................................2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTIONThe Spirit of the Beehive – Víctor Erice, 1973The Spirit of the Beehive is a Spanish Drama directed by Victor Erice who is known asmasterpiece of Spanish Cinema. The movie is based on Young Girl and her fascination.However, the girl is represented as Ana who is exploring her school life and family. The film isknown as “be witching portrait of haunted inner life of girl”. The symbolism of story reflectsdisintegration of family's emotional life during civil war (Miles, 2011). The two main charactersof Movie are Ana Torrent as Ana and José Villasante as The Frankenstein Monster.MAIN BODYFilm critiqueThe story is based on Ana, a Six year old girl who is shy girl and lives in Manor hourswhich is an isolated Spanish Village located at Castilian plateau. She lived with her parentsTeresa and Fernando and her older sister Isabel. The story was of 1940 just after end of Civilwar. In this the mother of Ana was a daydreamer of distant lover whereas her father used tospend time in writing about Beehives. The movie is based on emergence of mobile cinema whichintroduced both sister with Frankenstein to which Ana and Isabel used to see it. However, it wasdenoted that Ana was influenced by the particular scene where Frankenstein which was monsterkills young little girl. She was completely involved in scene and therefore used to ask her sisterabout the reason of killing (Ebery, 2012). To make Ana understand Isabel explained that monster is like a spirt and she can see it ifshe closes her eyes and calls him. The movie is based on fascination of Ana and it increaseswhen her sister takes her to Sheepfold and she Ana claims that house is of monster. Further, inthe story the Ana was involved with the monster house and discovered wounded republicansoldier who was hiding. Apparently instead of running away from him she feed him and bringhim home. Further, the police founded soldier and shoot him on the spot and when Ana went tohim she found that soldier was lying on the floor with blood stains. She confronts her father andruns away. Hence, in last family and villagers looks for Ana and found her near lake in deeptrauma where she was unable to forget the entire scenario happened with soldier.The character in the movie signifies different role as per their charactertics where fatherof little girls writes about Beehive, monther repted role of day dreamer for her beloved andtherefore Ana little girl takes advice from her sister Isabel.1
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