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I was NOT expecting Pan’s Labyrinth to end like that
This movie has been on my watchlist for a long time and I finally got around to seeing it tonight.
I thought the special effects were rly well done, especially the CGI given the time this
came out.
I also loved the way this is more of a war period piece than a straight up fantasy, and how it blends aspects of fantasy into its very ground story!
I was honestly expecting for it to be like a Tim Burton-esque “Labyrinth [circa 1986]” where after she first goes into the labyrinth it takes her on a magical journey, but I was pleasantly surprised how much of the storyline is just between the drama of fascists and the resistance. The moments of fantasy act as a nice addition to how Ofelia sees the world as a coping mechanism to the trauma around her (war, her mother’s sickness, etc.)
I am so curious as to what was real and what was just in Ofelia’s head, because Vidal physically picked up the baby Groot fetus thing and threw it into the fire… but then the Pale Man wasn’t there from Vidal’s perspective when he chased her through the labyrinth, so can only she see these spiritual entities or..?
I also just.. I was not expecting for her to die at the end let alone getting shot point blank like that. I haven’t been this shocked watching a movie in a long time, I was lying down and when that happened I shot my head up and sat up in pure disbelief, mouth agape, eyes watering. The ending made me cry fr seeing her in the afterlife reunited with her family and having the “prophecy” fulfilled for the “princess to return to the land of spirits/leave the land of mortals” wrapped up the fantasy aspects of the movie in such a way that made me rethink the meaning of everything fantasy-related that I just watched.
What i didn’t like about the movie was that there are a few little blunders with the audio syncing and also seeing someone who’s dead breathe for a slit second mildly takes me out of the movie for a sec, but other than that I give nothing but praise for this film. Praise for the costume designers who adorned the rich environments that brought colorful life into each scene, esp. the fantasy set pieces! Praise for the adult acting and the NOT god-awful child acting muchísimas gracias a Ivana Baquero por darnos un gran performance fr. Praise to how Del Toro worked his craft and made such a unique, eerie, curious, intense work of art that pushes boundaries and major took risks with its characters. Mad respect to u for that Sr. del Toro. What a wonderfully melancholic movie, I can’t wait to see it again with actual subtitles this time when i buy the blu-ray
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This movie has been on my watchlist for a long time and I finally got around to seeing it tonight.
I thought the special effects were rly well done, especially the CGI given the time this
came out.
I also loved the way this is more of a war period piece than a straight up fantasy, and how it blends aspects of fantasy into its very ground story!
I was honestly expecting for it to be like a Tim Burton-esque “Labyrinth [circa 1986]” where after she first goes into the labyrinth it takes her on a magical journey, but I was pleasantly surprised how much of the storyline is just between the drama of fascists and the resistance. The moments of fantasy act as a nice addition to how Ofelia sees the world as a coping mechanism to the trauma around her (war, her mother’s sickness, etc.)
I am so curious as to what was real and what was just in Ofelia’s head, because Vidal physically picked up the baby Groot fetus thing and threw it into the fire… but then the Pale Man wasn’t there from Vidal’s perspective when he chased her through the labyrinth, so can only she see these spiritual entities or..?
I also just.. I was not expecting for her to die at the end let alone getting shot point blank like that. I haven’t been this shocked watching a movie in a long time, I was lying down and when that happened I shot my head up and sat up in pure disbelief, mouth agape, eyes watering. The ending made me cry fr seeing her in the afterlife reunited with her family and having the “prophecy” fulfilled for the “princess to return to the land of spirits/leave the land of mortals” wrapped up the fantasy aspects of the movie in such a way that made me rethink the meaning of everything fantasy-related that I just watched.
What i didn’t like about the movie was that there are a few little blunders with the audio syncing and also seeing someone who’s dead breathe for a slit second mildly takes me out of the movie for a sec, but other than that I give nothing but praise for this film. Praise for the costume designers who adorned the rich environments that brought colorful life into each scene, esp. the fantasy set pieces! Praise for the adult acting and the NOT god-awful child acting muchísimas gracias a Ivana Baquero por darnos un gran performance fr. Praise to how Del Toro worked his craft and made such a unique, eerie, curious, intense work of art that pushes boundaries and major took risks with its characters. Mad respect to u for that Sr. del Toro. What a wonderfully melancholic movie, I can’t wait to see it again with actual subtitles this time when i buy the blu-ray
#movies #video
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