Pan’s Labyrinth: Big Screen Art
This morning, my wife and I went to go see the movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”.
To say it was frightening is one thing, but to say that it was sheer inhumane might be closer to the mark. Granted, it was a war-time era. Bad things did happen. Good people died, and people were tortured for no reason. But besides all that and the critical analysis… I must come to the look and feel of this film.
Labyrinth exposed the beauty of film-making not so much as a two hour adventure in Ophelia’s world of horrors, but as a dangerously beautiful balance between the world of adults and children in war. In war with each other, in war with themselves and in war between reality and imagination.
In this, it has achieved more than most films ever dare to. Few films come closer to being art than this.
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