Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López and Maribel Verdú
The story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother's new husband and Captain, in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through an imaginative fable of her own.
Hearing this movie was graphic and difficult to watch, I was still intrigued because I love fairy tales. I have an appreciation for them because a) they are written by adults for children and b) sometimes they are not for children. This one is not for children. Despite its violent and graphic nature, I was ready to watch this movie thinking the most violent and graphic content would be during the fantasy sequence though I will still anticipate those scenes because the "reality" part of the story would be boring and dull - an escape from reality if you will. This was half true. I looked forward to the fantasy scenes because it was the reality side that was more frightening, more graphic and more uncomfortable to watch - a definite escape from reality.
Sergei López as the Captain was so terrifying that I would choose to face off against a baby-eating, wormlike monster with his eyes in the palms of his hands any day over the chance of bumping into Captain Vidal in the hallway of my so-called home. And our protagonist is simple: an innocent little girl in a not-so-innocent world. Watch this film... but be prepared to uncomfortably place that hand loosely over your eyes from time to time.
1 comment:
I just saw this one last night, it is horrble and beautiful at the same time, intriguing, and magical, a good movie, but I´m not so sure it it for kids though.
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