Pan’s Labyrinth

Skipping celestials and star dusts and hopping through difficult trail re contextualized this whole genre. The human faces with diabolical trace and twisted horn creatures being new spirit animals.

 

The setting chants the era vibes demurely which makes you feel hopscotching in time travel machine. That is the real magic the narration dwells into.

 

Silent cries translated with green color palettes and the solace in the most unexpected nook. This fairytale remains uninfluenced somehow that spectrums emotions through bleak angle.

 

Lunar modules, books binder, chalks and the book that appears magically are the dwellings of motif that pushes the story forward, each of one appears with certain history.

 

It does not hesitate to portray the bizarre, the mystery coming through sand clocks and tense hallways. The cold dystopian fumes and the fairy land however uninviting too, you will feel this mixed polygon of love and pain for protagonist, Ofelia.

 

Story comments on the soulless bodies and insensitive hearts while running the parallel quests. The camera feels like the life itself, folding the stories of several sufferings.

 

Story swears reality so nothing snowballs a sweet spot for our sweet lead. Antagonist keep reaffirming his cruel chair whenever story tries to snatch away from him. The camera take pause once or twice that hints the embedded possibilities in otherwise doomed place.

 

The scare-you-away type thrill never rests, and one is glued to listen the silent footsteps. Still my childlike avatar was scared from blood, stitches, and gore.

 

Challenge is to keep predicting until you hit the psyche of writer, I enjoyed that too but I am not sure when I will recover from the pain I felt in the movie which is circumference my thoughts. I feel to say it’s a must watch.

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Ayesha Musharaf

11-10-2020

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