Movie review

This weekend was good, and it kinda sucked to be waking up and coming to work this morning. I finished a project for ZZ and shipped it off to her this morning. Had lunch yesterday with the hp_boston crowd. Thanks, ladies for a lovely afternoon!

And then Gwen and I watched "Pan's Labyrinth." Wow. Visually *stunning* and strange and weird, and just scrumptious. It was perhaps a little more violent in bits than I was comfortable with. Ofilia's step father should have been put down long before the movie began, as bug-fuck crazy as he was. We kinda knew where it was going long before it got there, but it was billed as a fairy tale for adults, even if the heroine was a ten year old girl. It was intriguing enough that the only times I was reminded it was subtitled was when I didn't want to see the torture (by which I mean the way-liberal use of blood) going on but still wanted to read what they were saying.

Well done. Although I am not sure why the director felt he needed to add a "director's notes" prologue where he confessed that he loved this project, sweat blood for this project, lost a lot of weight with this project, and hoped we, as audience, ended up loving it as much as he had for years.

I particularly liked the mesh of the "real" world and the "fantasy" world - and the use of the quality of light for each. Well worth seeing. Going on the "to be owned" list.