El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Taglines: -Innocence Has a Power Evil Cannot Imagine.
Starring:
-Ivana Baquero
-Doug Jones
-Sergi López
-Maribel Verdú
This film takes place in post civil war Spain, 1944, after Fr
ancisco Franco comes into power. Captain Vidal (Sergi López) is stationed at a countryside mill and is assigned to seek out republican rebels. He is an evil sadistic commander and also the step-father of Ofelia (Ivana Baquero). Ofelia and her pregnant mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil) travel to stay with Captain, for the birth of his son. While staying in the countryside Ofelia encounters a faun (Dough Jones) who tells her she is Princess Moanna. But before returning to her kingdom, she must first complete three tasks before the moon is full.
I really liked this movie. It was beautiful, sad, shocking, disturbing. It was well done and the
acting was fantastic. The creatures were very creative and imaginative. The violence was very shocking. It wasn't necessarily shocking because it was gorey, but because it wasn't gorey. In Hollywood films, when someone gets shot, their body goes flying and blood splurts everywhere. Or if someone is stabbed or clubbed to death it's done in a dramatic and gorey way - something to shock you. But this, was very realistic, so realistic it was shocking, just because it was so real, and it's unnusual to see something
that real in films. I know there are plenty of films which depict real violence, but this, this was just shocking. Still it was a very well made film. It was brilliant.
