05-22-2011, 03:17 AM
(05-21-2011, 11:48 PM)MEAT Wrote: Is it really worth watching? I watched the first full-30-minutes (not like when someone says they saw 30 min of a movie and actually only saw like 5-min, but 30-actual minutes) of it and found it so incredibly boring, I had to watch something else or I felt that my brain might implode. What's so special about this movie anyhow?
EDIT: Actually, reading a synopsis, it was more like the first 45-50 minutes of the movie. I read reviews and I never saw what the reviewers saw. I was never even sure what her imaginary world represented. And the director didn't do a good enough job to get me caring either. It's all coming back now... one of the worst movies that was hyped up to hell and back I've ever seen!
You should have watched it all the way through to the ending. It broke a lot of "movie rules", and I love movies like that. Del Toro never actually says that her fantasy world is real or not. I'm sure that's an exercise left up to the viewer. You can make a solid case for both. I'm happy that he never "dumbed it down", and actually made me think about it.
It's the story of a little girl, not really loved by either of her parents, living in a fantasy world. Every step of the way you really want something happy for this child, but it never comes about. It just gets more and more depressing. Not every movie has to have a happy ending, and Pan's Labyrinth has the 2nd-most depressing ending to a movie I have ever seen. It was artistic.