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In Reply to: Question to those that have seen Pan's Labyrinth... posted by TWB on January 21, 2007 at 22:12:14:

>Could you/ would you take a 11 y/o boy to see this?>
Could be borderline child abuse.
It is much more graphic and violent than Children of Men.
Spoiler alert............
Some examples:
A guy gets his face pounded in with the bottom of a coke bottle while you watch his face turn to mush.
Another guy gets his leg amputated - you see the first saw cut through the skin.
Graphic set-up for torture scenes describing what will be done to him - then you see the guy's beat-up face and cut up hand which resulted as he begs to die.
Another guy's mouth is cut open with a knife so he looks like The Joker.
Bloody miscarriage scene.
A young girl is gut-shot at close range and lies on the ground bleeding out as she dies.
Maybe when he's 12....

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"It is much more graphic and violent than Children of Men." - No, it isn't, but YMMV. - Audiophilander 08:58:12 01/23/07 (0)
While Pan's Labyrinth has moments of intense violence, repelent acts, Children of Men has the dehumanizing element of street warfare and seperate acts of brutality which seem almost comically desensitized (the murder of Michael Caine's character, for instance). These tend to stick with one longer, like real graphic war footage.
The reason Pan's Labyrinth seems more violent is that the moments of violence are quite direct, up close and personal; since you can't get away from these acts of inhumanity it seems that much more intense, but it's never gratuitous, IMIO.
> > > "Could be borderline child abuse." < < <
No offense, but kids are exposed to more bloodletting violence in video games these days. There are certainly disturbing elements in Pan's Labyrinth, and that's why younger children should not be taken, but older kids, say over the age of 9 or 10, with one or both parents on hand to explain the allegorical nature of the film is another matter.
> > > "Maybe when he's 12...." < < <
I doubt the film will wait that long if he wants to catch it on the big screen, but you may be right; he may be too sensitive for it.
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Totally agree. Much more graphic and if not outright violent much more brutal than COM. nt - sjb 14:21:09 01/22/07 (1)
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- I have to disagree here; I think that the realism of warfare is much more graphic; see explanation above. (nt) - Audiophilander 08:58:15 01/23/07 (0)
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