Pan's Labyrinth

[serene]

Just saw Pan's Labyrinth with stonebender.



I thought it was really brutal and really good. It was what Tideland was trying to be. The acting was excellent; the violence was hard to watch, but made sense in context; the ending was simultaneously wrenching and satisfying.



Serene-bob gives it two (severed?) thumbs up.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

There are some movies that I hear just enough about that I want spoilers. This was one. I've read complete reviews, because someone said something about there being graphic violence, but not gratuitous, and that the movie was brilliant. I still have really nasty flashbacks for Pulp Fiction and generally just don't see Quentin Tarantino movies. I wish I'd been warned about the violence in PF before I saw it. So from time to time, I click right past spoiler warnings because I want to know. I'll either see the movie, or not, but I want to know whether I'll need to spend chunks of time hiding my face.

[prizmdonna.livejournal.com]

If Pulp Fiction was a face-hiding experience, then this certainly would be, too. It's graphic in a different way, and definitely in context, but I'm betting you'd need to hide your face through chunks of this. Pan's is a really wonderful movie, though. Worth it. I highly recommend it.

- donna

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I compared this to Pulp Fiction while we were still in the theater, and Guy mentioned that the first act of brutality came without warning. I don't think you'll like the movie. I spent a lot of time hiding my face, and I'm not normally all that fazed by violence in movies.

[minimo.livejournal.com]

Another violence avoider here. American movies need more sex, less violence.

I just watched Fight Club for the first time. In the commentary, Fincher said the Americans had no problem with any of the violence in it, but the British questioned the most violent fight. (I think he ended up trimming it back a teeny bit. FC has several extremely bloody fights, but has a lot of other interesting, weird things going on.)

But they got a very hard time from the studio about sexual content *that you have to imagine*. One was the appearance of Brad Pitt wearing a big rubber industrial glove (as though he had been using it in the bedroom, non-specifically. It was Pitt's own idea, and I think it was hilarious.)

They also freaked out about a one second shot of condoms in a toilet. Both of these jokes were a little gross, but compared to bloody pulps of faces, de nada. At least for me.

I just have to ask...

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

OK, I have a question. This is something I always want to ask about violent movies I haven't seen, but I'm kind of embarrassed about it, so please, nobody give me any shit about this, OK?? Thanks! :)

Do any animals get hurt, particularly on purpose?

Re: I just have to ask...

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I think that's a really good question, and in this movie, if I'm remembering right, there is a mandrake root that is "alive" and gets thrown into the fire. The person who throws it into the fire, though, thinks it's just a root.

However, and on par with hurting animals to me, there is some intentional harming of children.