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The cinematography was fantastic but the entire product left me a little underwhelmed. It felt incomplete. But I still have to give it a 4.0/5.0. Best film I've seen in awhile aside from Children of Men. The setting was immaculate, that's what I mean by cinematography. You felt like you were in Franco's Spain. I would classify it as magical realism, because of the mixing of the rational and the irrational -- the Faun and others were never presented as being anything except a little abnormal. The way that Ofelia's mother (or was it the caretaker Mercedes?) talked about Fauns made it seem completely reasonable. The best part of the movie to me was the Captain. The way that they presented him was great, really giving you a psychological understanding of him. Ofelia's mother is tortured but not really explained. Mercedes, her brother, the doctor, none of these characters are really given a psychological treatment. And that was fine. But watching the Captain and how inner demons affected him (father's death), the sheer brutality of what he did as a result, that was the most engaging aspect for me. ian fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jan 28, 2007 |
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