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El Laberinto del fauno
May. 2nd, 2007 10:35 pmI finally saw "Pan's Labyrinth" tonight... Today was the last night it was at the Parkway so I biked over from work. I'm going to call it "El Laberinto del fauno" since Pan was nowhere in the movie. What a ridiculous retitling. As if one beast-legged thing was the same as the next. Criminy.
I wouldn't recommend seeing it; it was very black and very sad, and to my view, it didn't offer enough to offset that. There are many different takes on it, though; here are a few I've looked at since coming home. Below the spoiler-filled cut, I'll offer mine.
( Assortment of spoilery thoughts on Ofelia's fantasy world and what it meant )
Anyway. I'm not exactly sad I spent a couple hours on "El Laberinto del fauno" because it's a mysteryshop full of neat things to build essays around, but I'm glad it didn't pick up the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
I wouldn't recommend seeing it; it was very black and very sad, and to my view, it didn't offer enough to offset that. There are many different takes on it, though; here are a few I've looked at since coming home. Below the spoiler-filled cut, I'll offer mine.
( Assortment of spoilery thoughts on Ofelia's fantasy world and what it meant )
Anyway. I'm not exactly sad I spent a couple hours on "El Laberinto del fauno" because it's a mysteryshop full of neat things to build essays around, but I'm glad it didn't pick up the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.