If you have complaints about reality, wander between dreams and reality; if you have a childlike heart and want to relive the feeling of listening to stories when you were young; if you believe in the power of darkness and mystery, always try to discover new things; if You have fought the orcs and elves to death all night long; if you are over 18 years old and look forward to bizarre violent images, then please don't miss this movie. The perfect fit of magic and reality Mexican director Del Toro created two worlds in this film, one is the extremely cruel real world, and the other is the magical world that exists in the heart of the little girl Ophelia. These two worlds are like two vine plants, because the distance is too close, the branches and leaves have grown together perfectly. During World War II, the 12-year-old Ophelia followed his struggling mother to seek refuge with his stepfather, Vidal, a brutal fascist officer. Of course, Vidal didn’t love this weak wife and he didn’t love this deified story all day long. Obedient Ophelia; he regards himself as the ruler of the world, he just wants his wife to give birth to the child in his belly to continue his brutal rule. Ophelia, who lives in darkness and solitude, meets the fairy who is a mantis, who leads him to Pan Shen. Pan tells her that she is a princess in the dark world, as long as she completes three before the full moon. Task, she can return to her own world. The wonderful magical world is undoubtedly a kind of refuge for Ophelia. The plot of the film is similar to Andrew Adamson’s "The Chronicles of Narnia", but in my opinion, "Paine's Labyrinth" is better than this. Well-prepared American fairy tales are much smarter. The war background in "The Chronicles of Narnia" is just a cover. The story tells about old things like childlike innocence, courage, and trust. Unlike Del Toro, the two threads of war and magic develop in parallel, giving the movie its own A dual space is created, and these two spaces are dependent on each other. But this is not the most brilliant, the most remarkable thing about this film is the dark tone of the film. There is a bizarre fairy tale on one side, and a muddy reality on the other. Although the two sides naturally form a sharp contrast, for a film, the tone is difficult to unify. Therefore, Del Toro’s approach is to abandon the purity of fairy tales and replace them with magical colors that are both righteous and evil. Therefore, the image of God Pan he created is not a loving and kind old man, but a strange behavior that is difficult to make. The tree spirit that people trust. This analysis may be too rational, or in other words, Del Toro is fascinated by this dark tone, so everything is a natural creation. The bright, bizarre, and grotesque image creation Pale man was fascinated by it when he saw the image of Pale man on "Watching Movies" a few months ago. It is said that Del Toro’s inspiration for this image came from one of his wife’s Thought, she imagined it as an aging old woman with loose muscles. When I saw it in the movie, it was sitting upright (sleeping) in the middle of a rich dinner, and its two pieces Eyeballs were placed on the plate in front of him; when Ophelia couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food and ate two grapes on the table, he began to wake up. He first put his eyes in the hole in the palm of his hand, then slowly opened his hand and opened his eyes. And when you thought it was a weak and ridiculous monster, it caught the Fairy Guide, put it in its mouth, tore off its head, and swallowed it. The reason why I am so interested in explaining this narrative process is because it is really great. Although the performance of this role is less than five minutes, it is enough to make the whole movie glow with mystery. God Pan said just now that this is a strange tree spirit that is difficult to trust. In fact, it is really the god of mountain forest and animal husbandry in Greek mythology. He gave Ephelia some magical treasures. : One is a book that can see what you want to see, and can see the past and the future; the other is a seemingly ordinary piece of chalk, which can open a door anywhere and go where you want to go; and There is a tree root that wants to be a human, so long as it is soaked in milk, he moves like a bloated baby. But since it is Pan God, there must be many other treasures, who knows. The exclamation point of violent images When it comes to violence, we don't need to be disgusted or fearful. It is the spiritual need of most people to watch appropriate violence on the screen. Just like the violence like the razor across the eye in "An Anluda Dog", smart violence is not a blind bloody and strange means of killing, it should be an appropriate exclamation mark in the movie. As mentioned above, in order to maintain the dark tone of the movie, Del Toro wrote fairy tales as magic, so he also created a devil in the real world. He could smash the bridge of an innocent villager's nose with a wine bottle like a cucumber with no expression on his face, and smash it to the bloody face; he could also shoot his daughter without thinking, he was such a person. The violence surrounding this character is of course more than that. The chef who began to resist stabbed his mouth with a knife and cut his face. What can be called an image wonder is that he opened his mouth in front of the mirror. , Observe the gap on this face.
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