In Reply to: Pan´s Labyrinth or the damage of LoTR ´s made on the decades of films to come... posted by patrickU on June 29, 2008 at 01:40:24:
...but I take the juxtaposition of the brutally "real" against the robust fantasy of the "imaginary parts" to be a major part of the film's substance. There are times, though, when the real starts to verge into fantasy and vice-versa, as when the villain Vidal sews his own face back together, making a Batman Joker face in the process. I find amazing the way it plays the fantastic against the real while really not staking a claim in the end at all for what's real and what's fantasy. But it's true, you have to have a stomach for the grotesque to be able to take it. My near-17-year-old daughter thought it was amazing but my wife won't go near it.
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Follow Ups
- I am sure "Pan" is not for everyone... (bit of a spoiler) - EBerlin 10:42:28 06/29/08 (2)
- RE: I am sure "Pan" is not for everyone... (bit of a spoiler) - patrickU 14:39:57 06/29/08 (1)
- Fair enough.... - EBerlin 14:54:06 06/29/08 (0)