If you think Pan's Labyrinth is a little gothic and surreal, Pa negre is much more down-to-earth, also telling the trauma of the war, through the eyes of a child, describing the secrets, intrigues and lies behind the remote villages after the Spanish Civil War. Of course, the direct cause of the tragedy is poverty. Because of poverty, Farriol will take the instructions of the rich woman Manubens and castrate her brother's gay lover Pitorliua. Because of poverty, Farriol will kill for Manubens again, but the cause of poverty is precisely It was a war, and Farriol paid his own price for it. He tried to exchange his own death for a better life for his son Andreu. He never forgot to teach his son to maintain a moral conscience, but when Andreu saw through the distortion of the adult world, He also gradually realized the monster hidden in his heart. When he finally breathed on the glass, blurring his mother's back, and trying to separate himself from the world of the past, he knew in his heart that he had become this monster.
Director Agustí Villaronga can maintain his usual destructive tone (El mar, Tras el cristal, Aro Tolbukhin these films), and does not deviate too much from the mainstream, plus the photography, editing are also excellent, the most important thing is the performance of the actors , especially the young actor Francesc Colomer, who expresses Andreu's fear and moral struggle well. So many awards are well deserved.
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