a nightmare-a bedtime story-a grim fairy tale

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2009)

Bloody awful. Boy I did not enjoy this movie. The whole magical realism "red herring"-was just a pretext to suck the viewer into this sad-awful-degenerate catalog of Franco's god-awful war against the partisans. The whole Mystical-poetic wood-nymph side-story cannot camouflage the brutal Franco-ist nightmare we the viewers are subjected to: Torture-totalitarianism-and stupidity. I hate this movie. you should too.
I was expecting, not alice in wonderland.Guillermo del Toro was making a point-I guess.I guess this movie builds character or something.Most American poets wouldn't waste their time on sorrow-like this movie. Most American poets are frauds.