Subject: RE: My So Called Life & Salinger
From: Malcolm Lawrence (Malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Date: Thu May 08 1997 - 13:28:46 GMT
>Childhood and adolescence have their own internal logic
I think one of the most accurate portrayals on film of childhood is Victor
Erice's Spirit of the Beehive. It's a Spanish film that came out in 74
(that's available on video at any decent store) that deals with two little
sisters growing up in Spain in the 30s during the reign of Franco. Their
father raises bees. The Boris Karloff version of Frankenstein has just come
to their town and one of the girls is obsessed with it. She starts to
understand what the world is about suddenly one night, as there is one
scene where she comes back to meet her sister at home and suddenly, that
chasm is there: She's lost her innocence (nothing at all to do with
sexuality, not that kind of losing one's innocence, which I daresay if
anything actually helps you get it back) and understands that there's no
way she can put into words to her sister what she's just realized. There's
so many layers going on it's incredible, and the communication between the
two girls, all done with glances and gestures really, is spot on, yet at
the same time, yeah, there is that "internal logic" going on that
particularly belongs to childhood. Highly recommended.
Malcolm
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