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.