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2007.05.01, 04:56 PM | #61 |
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Me neither, and because of this, I didn't think the movie was great. Somebody wanna explain? Pan's Labyrinth was a visual treat, but I thought the storyline couldn't complement the beautiful visuals.
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I think this movie is in no point a fantasy movie. It's just a war drama. The girls just imagines all these things to distract and cope with the war. It makes a lot more sense this way. Not only as a story, but also as a movie.
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Oh no, its certainly not a fantasy movie. Agreed, definately. Is it "really" about the war? I don't think so, I still think its definately about the girl, more over, a girl whose lost both her parents. (spoilers zomg)
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No, I don' think that it's about the war, too. It IS about the girl, but the setting is a war, so I would still call it war drama instead of only drama
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My problem with "Pan's Labyrinth" is that the girl was such a goody two-shoes. No, worse than that, she was a total blank slate. Had no personality except she was cute and nice. Lots of people in the theatre were crying at the end, probably cuz they could project themselves into this nothing character and felt like they were the ones being tragically victimized.
Terry Gilliam's "Tideland" was along the same lines, but the girl was much more believable there, a typical amoral demented kid. "Pan's Labyrinth" was a lot preachier about good vs. evil, which helped make it a success. |
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I live Big Daddy and Fly Me To Polaris. Nana was good too.
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like her character, we'd exit the theatre. If shes a bad seed or too "off center" then with the bad guy, and all her fantasy stuff --we don't relate to her plot line at all. Your second paragraph seems to imply you went in with the wong mindset about Pan's Labyrinth. It doesn't work with a demented kid. The only way it would is if you totally restructure it and confuddle the point the filmaker was trying to make, I assume. EDIT: Typical amoral demented kid - ok. But if thats supposed to mean a typical kid is amoral and demented then you clearly went to a different school on a different part of town than me =P
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The other day I got a hankering for a very special certain movie. SO I popped it in and came to the thunderous conclusion that it MUST be my favorite movie behind Back To the Future.
I ruuuv this movie. I remember the first time I saw it, I had class the next morning and I couldn't sleep. Turned on the tv around midnight, flipped through the movie channels and..."wtf, is that Natalie Portman as a little girl??" Now I always had a preference for Natalie Portman, so I watched it. The film that followed, left me in such a state that only one emoticon can truly express: There be no "goody two-shoes" problems in this flick! So I stayed up til 2 to watch it, totally in awe of the thing. And the next day I'm sure I was belligerent upon my friends as I no doubt babbled on-and-on about the flick. Any movie where you give a little girl a gun and teach her to shoot people (even if she doesn't actually kill anyone, =( ) is a "brilliant" film in any page of my book.
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^ That movie is referenced in Johnnie To's Fulltime Killer.
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