Pan's Labyrinth

[shipperx]

Pan's Labyrinth just finished playing on Cinemax. This is the first time that I've seen it.

Damn.

It's one dark movie. Very moving and wonderfully made just... Damn.

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[rahirah]

That movie was awesome. Darker than heck, yeah, but one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely. It's haunting. Awesome and heartbreaking. Definitely a top tier movie.

[kcarolj65.livejournal.com]

I saw that in the theatre and while I can't say I "liked" it, I recommended it highly to everyone who asked. It broke my heart and blew me away. Not many movies I can say that about. And the cinematography! *weeps*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It broke my heart and blew me away.

Yep. That pretty much sums up my reaction.

[xionin.livejournal.com]

it is srsly dark. i don't think i was prepared for the amount of brutality in it. still, gorgeous film. i need the dvd.

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

What she said.

I saw it in May and it's still haunting me.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

"Haunting" was the term I kept thinking after the movie was over. It is a haunting film which stays with you even after the credits roll.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh, God yes. I literally gasped at the point where the Captain bashed in the face of the prisoner who had been rabbit hunting. I was so unprepared for that. I tend to be quite squeemish so ever after in the film I erred on the side of caution and looked away when it seemed like it might become decidedly awful (though given the circumstances, it didn't seem like superfluous violence, just more than my squeemish self tends to handle).

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

It was an amazing film. Just leaves you with a "day-m" sort of feeling. Astounding. Breathtaking. Frightening. Beautiful. Disturbing. So hard to explain but so excellent...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Other than "damn" the first word that came to mind was "haunting." The film was "haunting."

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. One of those movies you just keep thinking about...

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

That childbirth scene... Brrrr....

It was such a fantastic film. The ending hits me in a place that few things reach nowadays, that feeling of understanding why some stories don't have happy endings, a this-is-how-the-world-works feeling that I remember getting as a kid sometimes, like a shivery little epiphany.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

What struck me was how very true to fairy tales it was. Not fairy tales as we modern people experience them -- mostly Disneyfied that is... not that I'm knocking Disney. I loved Disney films growing up -- but as the old fairytales which when you read about their orgins and some of the parts the Victorian's glossed over and which we tend to completely leave out. Old, original fairy tales were dark and terrifying in addition to magigal and that was a large part of the film, as was the juxtaposition of an "adult" world which had Mercedes weeping over the fallen Ofelia at the end.

Beautiful, thoughtful, haunting and dark movie.

[jerrymcl89.livejournal.com]

Del Torro's "The Devil's Backbone" is also worth seeking out if you liked "Pan's Labyrith". It's sort of a companion piece, also set during the Spanish Civil War.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'd be interesting in seeing it. Pan's Labyrinth was a wonderfully well made film that lingers in the mind after seeing it. Most films these days are relatively disposable.