Beautifully dark

Rating: 5/10 (7 December 2019)

Pan's Labyrinth is overall a very beautiful and imaginative movie to watch. The elements of fairytales, magic, war, and tragedy are all tied together well. The film is set in Spain during the Spanish Civil war. The plot of the film escalated very quickly, it helped keep me interested. Ophelia's visions of bugs turning into fairies, a large toad regurgitating it's whole stomach, creepy monsters eating fairies, and finally her ascending to the underworld to be with her parents fulfilled the fairytale and magic elements. These ideas of fairytales were some like I have never imagined. The mother passing away while giving birth to her son was a very tragic moment. Also, the captain torturing and killing the rebels showed how brutal of a man he was. I feel like the movie was a little too harsh with all the torture, blood, and death in these scenes. Before I watched this movie, I watched the trailer. It very well summarized the happy parts of the movie. However, when I finished the movie, I was creeped out by all the blood, large bugs, and creepy monsters with eyes on his hands. Overall the movie ended on a good note. Even though, Ophelia passed away after being shot she ended up as a princess in another world with her mother and father.