Movie Review: Pan’s Labyrinth

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A Wonderful Fairytale intertwined with harsh reality. This is not the light-hearted Tinkerbell fairytale you might think it is… It’s dark, Tim Burtonish type stuff, and it’s beautiful. It is a bit scary at times, defitniely not for children, might scare the hell out of them, but it has really interesting characters and a really interesting story, like a much darker “Chronicles of Narnia”.

The fairytale is intertwined with a story of the Spanish Resistance in Red Spain during WWII. The themes in the story cover resistance, rebellion, Trust, Ethics of warfare, Parent-Child Relationships, Imagination.

I highly recommend it, it is VERY Cool. A sort of Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups. It is very captivating and I was enthralled for the entire time I watched it. A Search for something greater amongst the obstacles of Darkness and Evil… and standing for something greater than yourself. I loved the juxtaposition of the evils of torture and war set against the imagination of a child.

The movie is Spanish with English Subtitles and it got a 96% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
I highly recommend it. :)

Peace,
M.

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