Truly Magical

Rating: 7/10 (3 October 2010)

Pan's Labyrinth is a very good film and is worth watching. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro it is a truly magical film bringing the fantasy world to life. I think that this film is more for the older viewers who like fairy tales than children because the story is very violent and hard to understand.
I feel that having to read the subtitles because the film is in Spanish means that you are more concentrated on the film and it sets the scene more in the Spanish civil war but you don't realise your reading them. Pan's Labyrinth shows the reality of the Spanish civil war. By the end of the film you are left felling sad for Ophelia because of her struggle with her mum and dad and being forced to grow up in the middle on the war being forced to do errands for a mystical Faun. I would recommend this film to a friend because it is a magical film about fantasy adventure showing the struggle of Ophelia and what she faces. The film isn't all good though because i think the story gets a bit too complicated and it is mostly fantasy rather than focusing on the civil war.
7/10