divinemsjunebug
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5/23/2007 9:33 PM
posted awhile ago
Pan's Labyrinth
What a cheery fun comedy!!! I am majorly being sarcastic there. Has anyone else seen this movie. It's so sad but the visuals are so beautiful. I loved the lighting and the actors were all really good. The story was very dramatic and tragic, and I loved and hated the ending all at the same time - but it was a very good movie overall. Now I am going to have to watch a comedy just so I can stop feeling so depressed right now. sigh. If anyone else saw it, what did you think?
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divinemsjunebug
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5/25/2007 1:44 AM
posted awhile ago
Re: Pan's Labyrinth
I just had to mention something else about this movie, I remember watching the trailer for this film and from that, it appeared to be a kind of fun fantasy film like Bridge to Terabithia or something down those lines. I wonder if any parents brought their children to this movie? I also wonder if they left pretty quickly? Anyway, I think they should have stressed a little more about how dark it was and also that it was in Spanish. A friend of mine went to see it when it first came out and she had no idea that it was so depressing and that it had subtitles. She kept saying they tricked people to coming to see it...lol. I actually really liked it, moviewise, subject wise it was a little too sad for my taste but it was also really beautiful...
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db270567
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7/17/2007 5:34 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Pan's Labyrinth
i thought this film was brilliant in its effects and imagery.i was slightly perturbed with the dark side, i certainly didnt expect that especially as i was watching it with my 10 year old son.At one point i nearly got up and left when the two poachers are being questioned,which i thought was horrific for a fantasy film.i didnt find the film depressing as the setting for the film is war and war isnt exactly fun,but a fantasy to escape reality through the eyes of a child was the glue which held this film together.i thought the costumes and so called monsters where visually stunning and very creative and the fact the whole film was in spanish with subtitles didnt stop us from enjoying a fantastic ,brilliantly produced and directed film. A spanish masterpiece.
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joem18b
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7/17/2007 7:14 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Pan's Labyrinth
For me at least, Captain Vidal serves as a stand-in for Francisco Franco in the movie. The director, Guillermo del Toro, has the luxury of killing off Vidal at the end of the movie, but the depressing thought for me was that Franco did not get killed off, but ruled for another 30 years, and not gently. So I was cheered up by remembering SNL's first season in the mid-70s. Franco took a long time to finally die and the news kept following his illness until he did. SNL made fun of our government's (Nixon's) support of Franco and for the rest of the year, Chevy Chase would lead off the Weekend Update news with "This just in: Franco is still dead." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead for more.)
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divinemsjunebug
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7/18/2007 12:43 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Pan's Labyrinth
I agree with you, it was a beautiful film. I think the "poacher" scene was one of the most disturbing. The saddest part to that was you know that it really could have happened and you know that it still happens. It was just beautiful how she could take herself out of such an evil world and find her own little fantasy place.
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