Pan's Labyrinth - Film by Guillermo Del Toro - Page 3

Case Closed · #1 02-12-2007, 07:16 PM

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.

MikeyPatriot · #2 02-19-2007, 01:59 AM

Bump.

My ladyfriend and I saw this tonight. We both liked it, though I think she liked it a bit more than me. We had a brief discussion that may contain spoilers that I'd like to hear some thoughts on:

<font color="white">My girlfriend thinks that the end of the movie expresses some sort of non-denominational afterlife message. More specifically, the idea that your actions on earth directly influence whatever afterlife there may be. I simply took the ending as Ophelia's dying thoughts (which also are the end of her imagined fairy tale). FWIW, I interpreted the movie as "real" and Ophelia's fairy tale to be imagined.</font>

dawade · #3 07-16-2007, 03:12 AM

Just got around to watching this movie and I'm extremely disappointed in myself for not watching it on the big screen or on my big television (watched it on PC).

I had heard so many great things about this movie and it still kept me engrossed the entire time.

Very solid 8/10, IMO.

private joker · #4 02-12-2007, 07:31 PM

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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.

Peter666 · #5 02-12-2007, 08:53 PM

Reductivity is my specialty. Just like socialist historical revisionism is the specialty of many directors.

What is the reason that the communists are portrayed as brave victims and loving people, while the fascists are subhuman butchers without emotion or even nerve endings (sowing of the mouth)?

The true history of the Spanish civil war was quite the opposite.

While I can admire the story as allegory, it is rather cliche.

Viva Franco!