Aofeiliya and her flowers

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2020)

It was 1944 in Spain, and the smoke from the civil war had not yet cleared.
Major fighting in the Spanish civil war ended in 1939. That year, the left party led by the republican army defeated, general franco led the fascist officers overthrew Spain's second republic, the establishment of a military dictatorship. The surviving republican army was forced to organize into small units to wage guerrilla warfare in the mountains. The military regime carried out a ruthless campaign against the guerrillas to consolidate the fruits of victory.
Ophelia, 14, took her book and followed her pregnant mother to the mountains where her stepfather, captain Vidal, was stationed. The captain was ordered to round up the guerrillas hiding in the mountains. He was an outstanding fascist soldier, self-disciplined, cold, resolute, brave and inaccessible.
Here ophelia, a lover of fairy tales, found a dilapidated maze. Carved on a beam at the entrance to the maze was the face of pan, with three black holes in its eyes and mouth, giving it a wild and mysterious look. Right in the middle of the maze was a round chamber in the ground. Down the stone staircase, in the middle of the chamber is a miniature maze. In the middle was a stone statue, the top of which was the face of the same pan with the three black holes. Below was a girl with a baby in her arms.
Legend has it that the spirit of the underworld princess still roamed the earth, and her father had been waiting for her reincarnation and to take her home. Ophelia found an old pan in the maze. He will give ophelia three tasks. If she can successfully complete the three tests before the full moon, she can return to her father's palace.
From then on the story jumps back and forth between the magic kingdom and the mountain battlefield. One moment it was little lady fighting ugly toad; One moment it was guerrilla informants trying to smuggle letters, food and medicine; For a while the little princess in the white devil's hand narrowly escaped death, for a while is the captain of the captives of the bloody methods. Together on the night of the full moon, we saw the end of a story that fantasy and reality cannot tell apart. It's all so powerful.
In Shakespeare's famous Hamlet, Ophelia is the lover of prince Hamlet. Hamlet feigned madness for revenge and abandoned her. Later, the prince killed her father, Polonius. The double whammy sends ophelia into a real frenzy, and she ends up drowning while trying to break flowers.
The name "ophelia" is like a huge shadow hanging over the little girl. The beautiful ophelia was forced by the reality into a person's fantasy world, she told her unborn brother a story of roses. The rose that gives immortality grows on the top of a high mountain. To get close to it is to go through a number of terrible trials and tribulations. Gradually people forget the original purpose, just pass on the difficulties along the way from generation to generation. Long in the mountains, can bring people eternal roses so lonely waiting for the end of time.
The fairy tale ophelia tells her brother also hints at the future of her early death. Ophelia in Hamlet falls into a river while folding flowers. Our ophelia died while pursuing her dream of an eternal kingdom.
It's not them that are crazy, it's the reality they live in.
At that time, people did not know whether they could see the sun of tomorrow. Or yesterday they were reading newspapers and letters home in the cave, and today they were killed by cold bullets. They all aspire to build a better country, but the path they choose makes it impossible for them to co-exist.
The reality of cruelty is that soldiers will expertly fire a second round at the head of a dead enemy to ensure a clean sweep of the battlefield -- something that both sides can do regardless of political position. Torture tools small, simple but the effect of the "good" is extremely horrible.
The cruelty in the magic is that the white magic that eats children has even its fingertips soaked in the blood of old people. Next to the ogre's table laden with delicacies were hills of children's shoes.
Most cruelly, ophelia was killed, and she breathed her last in the glory of the underground kingdom. And that world turned out to be just a fantasy of her loneliness.
The camera tells these details calmly and carefully. No emotion, no big close-up, no blur, no emotion.
That's the end of the 1944 story. It was a long thirty-one year before the day on which general franco and his regime were to return to normal. There are many more children whose lives will pass quietly.