Excellent

Rating: 9/10 (14 January 2007)

While I thought the story would be more akin to Alice in Wonderland in terms of its magical content, it was not. The movie was more or less divided evenly between magic and reality. Like all subtitled movies, you think it's a pain to read at first, but by the end of the movie you are so entrenched in the movie to even remember you are reading them. The Spanish was quite elegantly spoken as well, not compared to the "Spanish" I hear spoken in Miami. The ending didn't disappoint, but it felt like there was something missing at the end nonetheless. It was very well executed and it was the best filmed movie I have ever seen. The interesting part was how the girl's fiction blended in with reality; and how in the end she went to her fairytale land, despite being killed. Excellent movie.