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

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.