Pan's Labyrinth
Talk about a cool, weird, tense and amazing movie.
Ok, let me explain a bit more, now that I've thrown out a few adjectives!
First off, this was a cool movie. It wasn't your typical fantasy flic, where there are stereotypical bad guys and monsters. This movie had great, and I mean great ideas for what you thought were set in stone characters. For example, we've got fairies. You know, the lil chicks with wings? Nope, fairies in this movie started off to be sweet ass looking preying mantis'. They looked SO creepy. Also, a faun - not half deer and man - looked like some weird stone tree thing with hooves and horns. Really cool!
Now let's move onto weird, There were some ODD things which were not over the top gross or startling but more just weird. The dude with eyes in his hands? Oh yeah, that's weird. Or the said fairies and fauns...yup, weird!
Tense only half describes the feeling of - oh what's next edge of seat - feeling. You know, when you're anticipating something so badly throughout the entire movie that you find yourself on the edge of your seat? Yes, this movie is one of those. You never feel the need to check your watch even though this is a two hour flic.
Lastly, talk about an amazing movie. The entire story idea, narration, sets, costume design and acting are top notch. This is the best foreign flic I have EVER seen. By the end you don't even realize you're reading sub titles.
Now that I've praised the movie so much, here is a brief synopsis:
The movie starts off with a young girl and her pregnant mother moving to the country side. You find out quickly that during this post WWII Spain, there is a civil war going on between the army and civilians. I'm not too sure how accurate this is to history, but wikipedia talks of a civil war during this time so that's good enough for me. The pregnant woman recently married a Captain who's fighting against country side insurgents...and is quite the brutal man. There is plenty of gore at the hands of this guy throughout the film, so whenever you see him you tend to go tense =D
On the way to the country home, the young girl comes across a fairy who then follows her to their destination. The story picks up from here where the fairies introduce the girl to the faun who then asks her to complete 3 tests to prove herself. All the while she is doing her quests, there is fighting between the Captain's men and the country side gorillas, which make for a very real and well tied story.
If you haven't already seen Pan's Labyrinth, I'd suggest to watch it in theaters. It's that good.
Ok, let me explain a bit more, now that I've thrown out a few adjectives!
First off, this was a cool movie. It wasn't your typical fantasy flic, where there are stereotypical bad guys and monsters. This movie had great, and I mean great ideas for what you thought were set in stone characters. For example, we've got fairies. You know, the lil chicks with wings? Nope, fairies in this movie started off to be sweet ass looking preying mantis'. They looked SO creepy. Also, a faun - not half deer and man - looked like some weird stone tree thing with hooves and horns. Really cool!
Now let's move onto weird, There were some ODD things which were not over the top gross or startling but more just weird. The dude with eyes in his hands? Oh yeah, that's weird. Or the said fairies and fauns...yup, weird!
Tense only half describes the feeling of - oh what's next edge of seat - feeling. You know, when you're anticipating something so badly throughout the entire movie that you find yourself on the edge of your seat? Yes, this movie is one of those. You never feel the need to check your watch even though this is a two hour flic.
Lastly, talk about an amazing movie. The entire story idea, narration, sets, costume design and acting are top notch. This is the best foreign flic I have EVER seen. By the end you don't even realize you're reading sub titles.
Now that I've praised the movie so much, here is a brief synopsis:
The movie starts off with a young girl and her pregnant mother moving to the country side. You find out quickly that during this post WWII Spain, there is a civil war going on between the army and civilians. I'm not too sure how accurate this is to history, but wikipedia talks of a civil war during this time so that's good enough for me. The pregnant woman recently married a Captain who's fighting against country side insurgents...and is quite the brutal man. There is plenty of gore at the hands of this guy throughout the film, so whenever you see him you tend to go tense =D
On the way to the country home, the young girl comes across a fairy who then follows her to their destination. The story picks up from here where the fairies introduce the girl to the faun who then asks her to complete 3 tests to prove herself. All the while she is doing her quests, there is fighting between the Captain's men and the country side gorillas, which make for a very real and well tied story.
If you haven't already seen Pan's Labyrinth, I'd suggest to watch it in theaters. It's that good.
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