Sunday, August 9, 2009

12. Pan's Labyrinth

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Year: 2006
Actors: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Doug Jones, Maribel Verdu
Plot: Set in the 1940s post-Civil War Spain, a young imaginative girl named Ofelia finds a mysterious labyrinth. There she meets a faun who appoints her three tasks to become a princess... Yet in her way is her evil step-father who will put his military cause above everything else.
Music: Incredible score by Javier Navarrete, with the sounds of a lullaby...
Why:
  • Incredible story... multiple realities, along with artistic filming... Great symbolism and metaphors...
  • Great CGI effects; ex (the faun, the frog, the pale-man, the fairies, and the labyrinth)
  • Chilling performance by Sergi Lopez as the evil Captain Vidal...
  • Beautifully sad music, that goes well with the fictional world
Key Moment: At the end of the movie when Ofelia is reunited with her deceased father and mother inside the great hall of the labyrinth....

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