Panned Viewership be Damned!

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2017)

Pan's Labyrinth eluded me for more than a decade now and now, I realize I've lived in a darker fantasy world without it.
What an incredible and sobering fairy tale that I originally pegged as based solely on FX and creative designs. Oh, no, it's much more than meets the eyesto the hands.
In a disgustingly horrible Captain's household in 1944, a mother and daughter suffer right alongside the rebellion and a fantasy world of objectives in order to survive and fulfill destinies.
Really, that's all I'm giving. Tricky, my synopsis is as you really should appreciate this all on your own as there's more story here to fill two franchises. This is truly a must see.
And forget waiting as long as I did. Put up your hands and watch it now.
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Final thoughts: While this movie can be analyzed to death, theorized to end friendships and studied in the best of film schools, I wrote one of my shortest reviews to date. I don't really have much more to say than I LOVED it, it was visually stunning and it should be viewed by all movie lovers and those adults trying to recapture their inner childhood innocence while understanding the connections to the world we, sadly, created.