I wish I made this film!

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2012)

"I wish that I made this film."....my first thought after about 10 minutes of dead silence that followed last notes of end credits of Del Torro's masterpiece "El Labirintho del Fauno". I had been left speechless and in superpositive shock after watching this amazing piece of art. It's a waste of time saying that this is a visually perfect blend of Bunjuel style shots and Goya's black paintings, Gothic fairytale storytelling and revolutionary partizan movies, love and death, real and surreal....it's all been said already. Its pointless and of no matter at all for this film! The fact is that this is a uniform energy flow, piece of art that surpasses all separate arts that it's made of. It's an open road to the core of viewer's soul. In one word, truly a masterpiece! I just can't get one thing...?! How can this be made by a director that made films like Hellboy or Blade 2?!? What happened to him? The same question could be pointed to brothers Wachowski that made Matrix 2 and 3 after original Matrix. If Del Torro had that artistic potential, how come that he didn't use it before in his films? I guess an artist need luck and all stars to get together to create a masterpiece.