Mar 09 2007
Want to see a good movie?
Watch El Laberinto del Fauno (aka Pan’s Labyrinth). Mind you, it’s dark fantasy, wrought with violence and not intended for the faint of heart (or young children!). The story is beautiful and the movie — unlike most Hollywood movies these days — has substance. Don’t get me wrong, I love Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Chronicles of Narnia, and they each have a certain majesty, beyond being just eye-candy, but Pan’s Labyrinth is moving much in the way Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage is moving.
I don’t care for gratuitous violence or gore (says she who cut her movie molars on B matinée horror flicks) and this movie does deal its fair share of gritty scenes. It hits like an iron fist and what makes it so riveting is the realism it portrays — this fascist darkness hovering over Spain, a sadistic army general who kills unabashedly, much in the way one imagines Hitler did. Then we have Ofelia, newly arrived step daughter, along with her sick and pregnant mother, soon to be trapped in both, the nightmare of human brutality and the fantasy of fairy tales.
See the movie. It’s worth every cent.
2 Responses to “Want to see a good movie?”
You like the dark side way too much sweetie :D
Well, yes that, but I’m also tired of paying for the endless stream of drivel with which Hollywood saturates the market. Yes, I like entertainment as much as the next girl, but … have you seen The Wicker Man? Someone should impose a rule about remakes — only movies older than 50 years can be remade! I want my money back!