Angry Young Man
16th December 2006, 19:22
I saw Pan's Labyrinth last night. It was really good. The story just kind of unfolds and gradually changes (a formula those American philistine-directors could learn from), so to say even what's in the first half an hour would sort of spoil it, but at the beginning:
It has an introduction about a princess who left her world to see light and feel breeze. She dies in this world, but the king, her father, is convinced she will return one day.
Then it goes to the real world. Spain, 1944. A little girl, Ofelia who loves reading fairy tales is going with her pregnant mother to the countryside to see Ofelia's "father". Her mother is ill, but very affectionate, as is her maid, Mercedes.
Ofelia's "father" is a cruel, cold and uncaring captain.
There, we find out, he is there because there are believed to be guerillas in the nearby forest.
That's all I'm telling you. Watch it for yourself.
It has an introduction about a princess who left her world to see light and feel breeze. She dies in this world, but the king, her father, is convinced she will return one day.
Then it goes to the real world. Spain, 1944. A little girl, Ofelia who loves reading fairy tales is going with her pregnant mother to the countryside to see Ofelia's "father". Her mother is ill, but very affectionate, as is her maid, Mercedes.
Ofelia's "father" is a cruel, cold and uncaring captain.
There, we find out, he is there because there are believed to be guerillas in the nearby forest.
That's all I'm telling you. Watch it for yourself.