I agree with you about the stich/drink seen, hurts!
My 2 favourite bits are when the servant girl finally gets her revenge on the fucker, and starts poking him with a knife life a chicken! and the really moving scene where Ofelia talks to her unborn brother and tells him she'll make him a prince in her kingdom if he comes out safely, and how beautiful her mum is :(
damn man this movie had scenes that made me well up and cry as well as scenes that warmed me, made me flinch, and DAMN if i dont love this movie..
thank you again, O' SoB!
3:47 pm
I watched Pan's Labyrinth with Kelly yesterday, the low-key movie from Guillermo del Toro.
Telling the story of Ofelia, a young girl in 1940's Spain, just after the civil war, a period where the government was ruthlessly finding and killing any remaining pockets of resistance. Ofelia goes with her heavily-pregnant mother to visit her step-dad, a strict, violent, and sadistic army officer at his base in the forest. While there, Ofelia discovers Pan's Labyrinth, a magical, mystical place where things like fauns and fairies and giant frogs exist.
The film (which is in Spanish) then does an excellent job at telling 3 stories all at once: the violence of man towards man, the dynamics of a family, and the fantasy of a young girl in the middle of all this. Excellently contrasting between a war (with LOTS of bloody, graphic violence, which makes the film rated 15 or R), and between Pan's fantasy world, you'll follow the story of Ofelia as she struggles to understand about family, war, life, and the Labyrinth and it's wonderful inhabitants.
What's great about the film is that it lacks in a lot of today's En Vogue cinema tricks, namely the funny, nearly amateur camera-work, and the obligatory plot-twist that most films these days rely on cos you just gotta have a twist. Nope, Pan's Labyrinth is straight forward, easy to follow, and has a very predictable ending (hell, you're told the ending when it first starts!). But it's a story that's beautiful, fascinating, magical, violent, and very moving. A fairy tale for adults if you wish. I challenge any adult watching it not to relate Pan or Ofelia to their childhood fantasies.
So, got my message yet? WATCH PAN'S LABYRINTH.
I leave you with a snap from one of the coolest Labyrinth creatures: The Pale Man, who has eyes in his palms..... now tell me you don't want to watch the movie.
"Pan's Labyrinth"
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BRAVO!
this movie can only be described properly in Adjectives:
Brilliant, Enchanting, Amazing, Thrilling, and many more along the same line!
there aren't many movies that can make me flinch or actually think of looking away, i can only one other right now: "Dawn of the Dead - 1978"
i flinched twice: the eyeless guy chasing Ofelia, and the captain stitching his cheek then drinking.
but, as you said: under of all the bloody freaking scary realistic violence here, this movie is a beautiful fairy-tale (ala Hans Christian Andersen).
Amazing. easily 9/10. the ending was the only thing that denied it a 10. the movie keeps you guessing but ends in the "proper" manner.
btw: this would NOT have worked in english. spanish is the key here.
6:09 pm
ah! so you seen it at last!
the 12.2k/sec leech is done!
I agree with you about the stich/drink seen, hurts!
My 2 favourite bits are when the servant girl finally gets her revenge on the fucker, and starts poking him with a knife life a chicken! and the really moving scene where Ofelia talks to her unborn brother and tells him she'll make him a prince in her kingdom if he comes out safely, and how beautiful her mum is :(
"el mano, el mano".....
8:59 am
damn man this movie had scenes that made me well up and cry as well as scenes that warmed me, made me flinch, and DAMN if i dont love this movie..
thank you again, O' SoB!
3:47 pm