Evil Murder Fairytale

Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2019)

Pan's Labyrinth is dark, gruesome, and was definitely not the kind of fairytale I was expecting. This movie setting was in Spain in 1944 under the Nazi held Europe and is an eye opener to how meaningless it was to take someone's life in this time period. The captain was a very heartless man and when they captured the two innocent farmer's and murdered them just because he wanted to was very distributing. His character was easy to distinguish early in the film that he was an evil man and became even more obvious when he shot men that were dead multiple times. I wouldn't recommend a child to watch this film due to some scenes that would be terrifying for younger viewers. Some viewers love this cinema and for me it was rather disturbing. I don't understand why this film is rated as high as it is because it really isn't an outstanding film and could be consider a lightly expressed horror film instead of a magical fantasy. Pan's Labyrinth has similarities of a fairytale but is not your typical, colorful, and happy fairies. It's rather a dark fairytale that deals with death and with characters that aren't human that could possibly be from a dark underworld. There were times in this film where I would turn my head because of the gruesome murders and even some of the non-human characters were frightening. Even though this was not one of my favorite movies the graphics, setting, and story was rather great. The film never portrayed poor quality or terrible acting and the nonhuman characters looked realistic. Pan's Labyrinth is a creative film, but I would not watch this movie again and do not recommend any one to watch this film especially if you find gruesome scenes disturbing.