From an 'outsider's' perspective, as I was watching it, I took no notice of any political symbolism. I went online while viewing to gather more information on the children performing and the director eliciting such performance. I came across a few words about the symbolism, but they were out of reach of this outsider.
After reading up on the political symbolism, I reasoned that they are just products of arthouse intelligentsia and academia.
I reckoned Erice was influenced by the Francisco Franco era. He lived it. This film was produced towards the end of that era. One might attribute some of the elements included as a sign that he saw the failing regime and took (more) chances.
I don't give him credit for taking chances with weak allusions at best. The Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, runs circles around what Erice had done.
What Erice did great was eliciting and capturing the young children's performance. I won't ever let the political symbolism override that.
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