February 19, 2007
I expected a lot from this film this film since it is a front runner in the Oscar Best Foreign Film category. Aside from that, it was also nominated in 4 other technical categories, which is not so common for a foreign language film. However because of these high expectations, I was a bit disappointed with Pan's Labyrinth.
The movie is basically a mix of Alice in Wonderland with Narnia. The lead character is an unbelievably brave and spunky girl for someone who is supposed to be a bookworm. She has no fear of big bugs crawling on her body. She was in no rush to leave the dining room of a kid-eating monster even though she had an hourglass that is about to run out. (The design of this monster is quite original and scary, though).
My first complaint is that the much of the movie was very dark and dimly lit. It was very hard to see everything onscreen. Secondly, there was a lot of unexpectedly graphic violence (shooting, gutting, stitching) for a movie that had a 12 year old girl as the lead character. I guess we are really getting jaded with these violent scenes (especially the movies I have seen lately like "Apocalypto" or "Blood Diamond").
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