El laberinto del fauno Review

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Plot: While the fascist Captain Vidal is in its forests, a brutal war with the guerrillas, his ten-year step-daughter Ofelia in the depths of an ancient labyrinth communicates with the faun. Subterranean creature seemed pleased with the girl: calls her princess, and a proof of its magical origin proposes to pass three rigorous tests. Fantastic and the real world become more closely intertwined around Ophelia. Is there a way out of the game?

"Stranger Than Hell"

After "Blade II» and "Hellboy" Guillermo del Toro has found something to surprise. At this time, no destructive superhero fights with enemies, razvorochennyh metro tunnels and rasshvyryannyh outlying machines. Instead of a mighty protagonist - a girl with dreamy eyes and gurgling named Ophelia. Instead of enemies - a fabulous creature, whose intentions, as well as the names are lost in the darkness of the labyrinth of time. Instead of fights - shots of fine pistol barrel, somewhere in the thicket, through the veil of rain. If cruelty - something cold-blooded, mechanical, when the killer now and then checked with the family for hours. If the fear - that ancient, underground terror, like the rising roar from the depths of Moria: "P-P-P-P-O-K!"

"Pan's Labyrinth" - a story woven from fairy tales, myths and parables. Fairy tale about a girl that falls into the magical world - not yet open. The Parable of the secret and explicit likah fascism - is new for our time. But authentic adaptation of the myth - has talent. The myth we learn from the absence of obvious moral of eerie spirit of mystery, the silhouette of incredible creatures, not like anyone or anything out of his usual life. Faun from "Labyrinth" (creating Sergio Sandoval, make masks and "Hellboy") and the bloodthirsty monster with eyes in the palms (a masterpiece by David Marty, responsible for special effects) if chuckle to all the characters in "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Harry Potter" together combined. Slightly apart here is only "Lord of the Rings", the scale is generally difficult (yes, apparently, and not at all) compared with the Spanish-Mexican film whose budget is 7 million euros. At the same time stamp "low budget", delivered at one time on film del Toro, "Devil's Backbone", one can hardly be put on "Labyrinth". That's really why not tell by looking at the Faun, it's "cheap." Rather, say "weird". It is indeed strange, and not only Faun, not just Fairy mantis, not only the "Faceless" in the banquet hall, but just the whole movie. It is very strange that "bad" can win. And what a fabulous test can result in failure. And what it all eventually pay the death.

Labyrinth - an abandoned stone building, which finds Ophelia immediately upon arrival at the estate of an evil stepfather. And, of course, the viewer will show how this same step-father would chase Ophelia on this very maze, sorry no ax. Otherwise, why Kubrick filmed his "The Shining"? But before this chase yet to live - more precisely, to inspect. Walk through a maze. Because the movie itself Guillermo Del Toro - also a maze. Rush - a dead end, rush - a dead end. By the end ceases to be considered deluded expectations. And it did not happen, and it did not work, and him they killed, and the output still there and you're all going under the magical melancholy music by Javier Navarrete.

Yes, fairy tales are scary. And fascism - it is not necessarily documentary footage from Auschwitz. It may well be that it is also a disgusting monster, with the pit instead of a mouth, sleeping in a room with forbidden viands. And when it pursues the girl stretched out his hand sighted, and the girl drops the chalk, which should draw out of the dungeon, and the sand in the hour, measure its time, all emerged ... - maybe it will be saved from it, but maybe not . Such is the strange law of life and work - there are no laws. Live in this world - is risky, risky to look like a movie. But after watching "Labyrinth" comes a strong belief: take the risk was worth it.