Pan's Labyrinth - Film by Guillermo Del Toro

[private joker]

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<font color="white"> It's interesting that the story starts with Ofelia getting shot. </font>

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It does? Can you remind me of that scene, please?

[daryn]

i think they are comparing it to children of men only because both came out at the same time

[daryn]

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<font color="white"> It's interesting that the story starts with Ofelia getting shot. </font>

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It does? Can you remind me of that scene, please?

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you see blood dripping down her face in the beginning, and it plays in reverse so it actually drips up her face

also, burningnguyen you are wrong, del toro has already said it was real! booya! </font>

[burningyen]

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i think they are comparing it to children of men only because both came out at the same time

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Del Toro, Cuaron and Inarritu (Babel) are all pals who apparently all commented on and even edited each other's films.

[burningyen]

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<font color="white">also, burningnguyen you are wrong, del toro has already said it was real! booya! </font>

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<font color="white">Never assume an artist understands his own work. Holla.</font>

[troymclur]

It makes absoluetely no sense for people to get angry over the fantasy portions not being properly explained in the real world, maybe because...IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Maybe, just maybe, the movie was a fantasy film, and the reason: <font color="white">The wall opened up for Ophelia and not the Captain was because the wall opened up for Ophelia and not the Captain</font>.

Of all the things one could complain, that seems like the last in line.


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<font color="white">also, burningnguyen you are wrong, del toro has already said it was real! booya! </font>

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<font color="white">Never assume an artist understands his own work. Holla.</font>

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Oddly enough, the artists opinion on his own work is not definitive. Audience interpretation is just as important.

[Peter666]

Brutally violent communist propaganda masquerading as a fairy tale. Order is portrayed as evil while rebellion is considered good. This is the typical political bent of most directors.

Worth seeing, but should have contained more fairy stuff.

[AEKDBet]

Not saying I completely agree, but that is a pretty awesome post. I laughed.

[Case Closed]

I am surprised that so many people here did not like the violence. Personally I hate movies that have excessive gore and stuff. Like in some new horror movies where the violence is so extreme is becomes dull and boring. In this film the violence is so intense and is so hard to watch. It's an uneasy feeling I have not had at a movie in a very long time. This movie is coming to the 2 screen cinema at my school in april and I am excited to bring a lot of friends to see it.

[private joker]

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Brutally violent communist propaganda masquerading as a fairy tale. Order is portrayed as evil while rebellion is considered good. This is the typical political bent of most directors.

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So any film that is remotely anti-fascist is therefore communist propaganda? Excellent point. And not reductive at all.