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Pan’s Labyrinth

Just finished watching Pan’s Labyrinth, it starts slow, in fact it took me a few days to get around to watching it as I kept starting to watch it and getting bored and distracted. But I am glad I did finish watching it as its really quite good and worth watching.

Its hard to talk about much of what I liked about this film without giving away spoilers but I loved the line they walked on, creating this really creepy fairy tale world and then making it seem not so bad and even likeable at points while still looking and feeling creepy and unnerving. And then the twist at the end which I just never really gave much thought too so it didn’t come as a surprise as such more just a sad realisation, but I guess the alternative didn’t seem overly attractive to start with which tempered it somewhat.

I like films that try to walk a thin line, subduing their opinions to an extent ‘sitting on the fence’ that don’t tell you what to think, they just present and let you think for yourself.

9 April 2010 ·