Pan´s Labyrinth
I´m taking a break from 80s horror and do a bunch of reviews of more recent horror movies on my vacation. I´m starting with Pan´s Labyrinth, not really a horror movie but dark and grim nonetheless.
The story takes place in Spain in the summer of 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, during the early Francoist period. The narrative intertwines this real world with a mythical world centered on an overgrown, abandoned labyrinth and a mysterious faun creature, with whom the main character, Ofelia, interacts. Ofelia's stepfather, the Falangist Captain Vidal, hunts the Spanish Maquis who fight against the Francoist regime in the region, while Ofelia's pregnant mother Carmen grows increasingly ill. Ofelia meets several strange and magical creatures who become central to her story, leading her through the trials of the old labyrinth garden.
Now... The same guy who directed this masterpiece also directed The Shape of Water, which won Best Movie Award at the Oscars.
I saw Shape of Water. Compared to this, is a huge pile of shit. And Pan´s Labyrinth, though it earned a bunch of Oscars, none of them was for best movie. hmmm... This tells me that people are eating shit when it comes to the cinema...
I saw Shape of Water. Compared to this, is a huge pile of shit. And Pan´s Labyrinth, though it earned a bunch of Oscars, none of them was for best movie. hmmm... This tells me that people are eating shit when it comes to the cinema...
It´s a beautiful, grim, melancholic fairy tale about a little girl who´s stuck in a nightmarish life. At the end of the movie, the question about was it real or was it just in her head (I believe it was all in her head) never gets answered, making it one of the saddest movie endings ever. The photography is awesome, the soundtrack is awesome, it´s honestly one of the most beautiful movies ever and though is not really horror, it portrays human cruelty at it´s worse.
If you haven´t seen it, you should do it right away.
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