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I've also been thinking about the fantasy/reality elements

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In the context of the film, both worlds are a fantasy, a fiction of cinema and thus equal in this deconstructed concept. I think our interpretation reveals more about our selves as the film poses an interesting question as to why anyone would chose to live in the world of reality full of pain, suffering, and death when another world (heaven/underworld) exists, or can be willed into existence (faith/belief). I think it also interesting to note that in Franco's Spain, the Fascists win, so even the brief victory/justice in the real world of the film are fleating