Pan's Labyrinth
Mar. 26th, 2011 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Just watched this. Visually? Stunning. Well directed, good performances. Very nice effects and creature building. Slow as molasses. I really had a hard time maintaining interest while waiting for things to move. To be honest, a movie about this small fascist outpost and the family/staff/soldiers dynamics would have been far more interesting without the fantastic elements. Especially is you filmed things from Ofelia's point of view as a shell-shocked girl who has retreated to fairy tales as a defense against her new reality.
Good, but not great. 3.5 penguins out of five.
Good, but not great. 3.5 penguins out of five.
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Date: 27 Mar 2011 04:18 (UTC)I believe this is actually the case. The failure to explore how she "really" got out of the loft is suggestive, but I don't think either of us would want them to slow down for that exposition when things are finally starting to move along.
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Date: 27 Mar 2011 16:29 (UTC)See if you can catch The Orphanage (same genre - I think by the same people/director). Again, visually stunning. But heartbreaking.