Subversive. The North is strict. Franco was from the North. The figure on top of the risible monument to the Suarez Patriarch is very short - Franco was not a tall person. The values lampooned - the petit- bourgeois values of the Falange. The choice of Spain - Ramon the builder of bridged (epitome of irony) aka Franco over Miguel who embodies Spanish brilliance in art, literature etc - is the lamentable choice of our female protagonist - artistically reversed for a Hollywood ending. Only a Falangist could fail to see how this film derides Franco - hence its commercial success and its polemic failure. That a film made in 1945 contains no reference to the war outside just emphasizes Spain's introspection and enforced exile from the passage of the world.
Review of La vida en un hilo
