Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dave c (A) on January 22, 2007 at 22:17:42

I jst saw it at lunchtime.
Whilst I think its visually great and audibly I think epsecially the faun and his catalogue of little noises, its the twinning of the stories that is interesting.
The contrast or irony of escaping the fascists only to enter a "kingdom" with "subjects".
The use of the Goya-esque monster (the one with the separate eyes) showing the "kingdom" was or at least seemed to me to be set against this horror which I think Goya used as a political symbol.
The feminist take on having both halves progressed by strong female characters.
Given the totally masculine imagery of the fascists then I am guessing using the female to express the other side was high on the director's list, but was the glory/richness of what by the end looked hugely like Christianity, really to contrast the grindingly ugly mundaneness of fascism?
Given the "No god, no country, no master" credo of the revolution this seems a strange choice.
Or is it in fact a power struggle between the conscious and unconscious, the rational and irrational that the film attempts?
Much more Spanish if its that I think.
Any thoughts.
I apologise if all this has been brought up but I tried not to read too much before I saw it and now its all much too far away and long ago.