Pan's Labyrinth - Film by Guillermo Del Toro

[Peter666]

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!

[MikeyPatriot]

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]

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.