Mansao's Magic Realism

Garth 2022-03-21 09:01:06

In fact, I like watching European movies, various themes, love, horror, comedy... all kinds of; the expression methods are not the same, but they have the same overall tune—Mengsao.

"Pan's Labyrinth" is a magical realist movie that is covered by a myth, but it has a heavy theme, and it is also a form of expression of Meng Sao. Love, affection, and hatred in war release the greatest energy. The love between the officer and his mother, the mother unilaterally bet on emotions, the officer gave up this woman at a critical moment and chose her son who was born to him; Omelia fantasizes like a schizophrenia, trying to pass the test of Pan, Rescue mother and brother; the maid and the lover went into war, and the hatred of the officer was the most intense manifestation of the bullet that pierced his face at the end, and even the last one that slashed his face with a knife before The bullet is incisive and vivid.

At the beginning, Omelia chased the flapping insects and began to walk into the fairy tale world. The sound of insects flapping their wings is low and deep, and Weng Weng's unspeakable repression set the tone of the whole film-the repression of reality and the weirdness of the magical world. Pan Shen's appearance is even more indescribable, a face that is kind but slightly hideous, very complicated! The dead man without eyes, with long fingers looking for eyes on the table, all look like some ghosts in mythology. If this movie is regarded as a fairy tale, it is not too much, it is just for people who have fantasies about fairy tales. One challenge-to accept fairy tales that are not beautiful, including the unfavorable pictures. But these scenes and characters all feel a bit boring, unassuming, but strong enough~

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Extended Reading
  • Alexanne 2021-10-20 18:59:16

    Kind of... can't tell

  • Nels 2022-03-24 09:01:06

    The impressive dark version of "Alice in Wonderland". Two main lines, one realistic cruelty, Spain under Franco's dictatorship, one fake fairy tale real magical dreamland, three missions full of political metaphors. Such two unrelated clues merge seamlessly. Some scenes are too bloody and not suitable for children to watch, and the middle rhythm is slightly slower.

Pan's Labyrinth quotes

  • Capitán Vidal: Tell my son the time that his father died. Tell him...

    Mercedes: No. He won't even know your name.

  • Mercedes: [to Vidal] I'm not some old man! Or a wounded prisoner! Motherfucker... Don't you dare touch the girl. You won't be the first pig I've gutted!