aka Pan's Labyrinthe.
Just finished watching it. Awesome movie! Now there was a lot of hype surrounding this one in the Art-house film community, but this is by the same guy who directed Hell boy (Guillermo del Toro) And we know just HOW much that movie SUCKED!
But onto Pan's Labrynthe - Set in post-civil was Spain, it's about a little girl named Ofelia (no had nothing to do with my rabbits!) who goes to live with her mum who recently married an army captain. The captain is, ofcourse, a bastard of a man with a cruel heart, who thinks of his wife as literally the vessel in which his son (she's pregnant) is being carried until birth.
In amidst the fanily tension and war-time trecheary, there is Ofelia, a girl with a love of books and fairy tales. Just like in Alice in Wonderland (the original version - not the light hearted fairy tale you read now - brooding dark one) Ofelia slips into her fantasy world, where she is given 3 tasks by a Faun, after which, she's promised that she can return to her kingdom as a princess.
I'm not one for gothic art/organic cg or one for gore, but this movie has all that and pulls it off brilliantly. Visually, it's a masterpiece where del Toro's touch is clearly evident in almost all of the characters. They all seem to have just a hint of sad/wistfulness about them
Maybe thats why I loved the movie. It is in part, about the cruelties of the world and how each one of us slowly looses their innocence. Actually, there's many discourses to be taken from the film, I just like that one the best.
It's a sad tale, really, but I think that's why I like it. It's pure in what it expresses. It's not a particularly clever movie, nor does it try to pretend to be. It is what it is and it grabs the viewer and shows how it would've been without compromise - in Raffy's rating - it gets a 8/10
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