Pan's Labyrinth - One Minute Review
0 Comments Published by Prasad Venkat on Monday, September 10, 2007 at 6:46 PM.
Spain. 1944. Second World War. Guerillas against Fascist regime. This is the setting against which Guillermo Del Toro has based his story which fuses gritty reality and absolute fantasy. I didn't get the catch, if there are any hidden messages meant for the audience. This is how it goes: Vidal is a military captain who has his base somewhere in the mountains, determined to wipe out the guerillas. He marries a widow who already has a daughter Ofelia. Now, Ofelia's world is two-fold - the world which everyone sees, and hates but continues to live; and the under-world, a fairy place where she is a princess.
The screenplay strongly commits to the effects of fairies on real-life that it's quite impossible to dismiss the fantasy part as a mere figment of Ofelia's imagination. There are scenes - in both the worlds that are great, but seeing them together, one after the another, some how distorts the movie effect and reduces the punch. Either it should have been a complete reality, or a complete fantasy. In tying the knot and in searching meanings, I was lost. One striking aspect of the movie is its photography, which creates a magnificent atmosphere, that you almost buy the fantasy scenes. One question lingers at the end of the movie: Why is it called Pan's Labyrinth?
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