Best movie of the year, I swear.
Feb. 22nd, 2007 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragojustinePan's Labyrinth (movie)
This is stunning and haunting and beautiful and horrifying and terrible and chilling and horrific and moving, all at once. It taps into that part of myth and fairy-tale that is deep, deep down at the base of us, where we know that the world is terrifying and mysterious and horror and death are inevitable and hope and magic are bare beams in the dark. It has some of the most innovative visuals ever, along with some of the most deep-seated patterns- the intrusion of a strange world into our own, the secret wonderful identity, the strange speaking beasts with arbitrary and terrifying demands and orders, the "three tasks"... Most of all, there is no sharp line between the world and the dream, nothing between the horrors of civil war and sadism and evil stepfathers, and labyrinths and fauns and monsters and strange gates to the underworld. They are all one and the same, part of the horrible terrifying fabric of the world.
This is stunning and haunting and beautiful and horrifying and terrible and chilling and horrific and moving, all at once. It taps into that part of myth and fairy-tale that is deep, deep down at the base of us, where we know that the world is terrifying and mysterious and horror and death are inevitable and hope and magic are bare beams in the dark. It has some of the most innovative visuals ever, along with some of the most deep-seated patterns- the intrusion of a strange world into our own, the secret wonderful identity, the strange speaking beasts with arbitrary and terrifying demands and orders, the "three tasks"... Most of all, there is no sharp line between the world and the dream, nothing between the horrors of civil war and sadism and evil stepfathers, and labyrinths and fauns and monsters and strange gates to the underworld. They are all one and the same, part of the horrible terrifying fabric of the world.