Author Topic: Pan's Labarynth (sp) (Read 387 times)

FiLtH · « **on:** May 29, 2007, 12:00:03 PM »

I enjoyed this movie. Its subtitled but watchable.

Yeager · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2007, 01:49:08 PM »

subtitled! whats the native language?

Engine · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2007, 02:01:13 PM »

Spanish, I think? Didn't see it, heard it was a really dark and grim fairy tale for adults. Includes some torture. Was that the case, Filth?

JB88 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2007, 03:11:09 PM »

mother goose meets dali meets texas chainsaw massacre,

FiLtH · « **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2007, 03:46:29 PM »

Ya its pretty grim. Its about a girl during WW2 in Spain and she and her widowed mother are going to live with her mother's new husband, who she is pregnant by. Hes an evil sob and does some pretty nasty things to people. Definately not for children.

Anyways the girl ends up being told by woodland nymphs that shes a princess of the underworld and she needs to come home. Has a few tasks she needs to fulfill to do this, and Pan is pretty creepy...never know if hes genuine or up to some trickery.

Its NOT like Lord of the Rings like the hype says...more like Legend was..that misty woodland, magical feel to it. Really pretty good.

If you see it, reply here and see if you interpret the ending as I did.

sidneylopsides · « **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2007, 03:51:39 PM »

I noticed that in Blockbusters the other day, I think I'll buy it, looks interesting.

68Hawk · « **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2007, 06:38:33 PM »

I was going to go to a movie with some chicks, and wanted to go to Letters from Iwo Jima, but we didn't think the girls would like all the violence and the subtitles. One of them suggested Pan's Labyrinth.

I knew by the time the bottle came down in a serious way that we should have just gone to Letters.

That baby eater was freaky cool though!

BluKitty · « **Reply #7 on:** May 29, 2007, 07:12:01 PM »

Crazy movie... not what I was expecting....it should not be compared to LOTR or Legend etc... it's NOTHING like such movies; but closer Legend than LOTR... Tom Cruise in short shorts...err tunics?... Don't think that would fit Pan to well

The ending made me cry

No way of discussing details without a spolier...but I thought it was fairly clear, due to the brutality of the rest of the movie...is that the way you took it?

FiLtH · « **Reply #8 on:** May 29, 2007, 10:42:23 PM »

Ya I mentioned Legends because its the only other movie I know with that fairy type feel...maybe that lion witch and wardrobe movie is a better comparison.

******DONT READ BELOW....possible hint of SPOILAGE

The way I took it was at the end...it was a dream, a sort of "An Ocurrance at Owl Creek Bridge" moment that her "love for fairytales" filled mind fabricated in seconds as her mother and her escort in the beginning of the movie were actually ambushed by the partisans.

moot · « **Reply #9 on:** May 29, 2007, 10:54:45 PM »

So it only recently came out over there?
I was disappointed the fantasy world wasn't more explored.. the movie ended too soon, storywise.
I'll have to watch it again to see how your interpretation fits.. It's always fun to re-watch movies like that.

##Spoilers below##

I don't remember it perfectly, but as I watched it I think I had favored the interpretation that there is no missing time - she waking-dreams all the fantasy parts, and dies a real death at the end. The fantasy end is her last thought.
It resembles most other split reality stories in the subtle choice of screenplay that blurs the line between real and imagined experiences of the characters.

FiLtH · « **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2007, 01:04:11 AM »

My wife asked why she (mother Queen figure) had the baby at the end fantasy sequence, as it was still alive.

moot · « **Reply #11 on:** May 30, 2007, 07:37:03 AM »

Why not? It's the girl's fantasy, after all.