Be Mesmerized...

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2010)

I'm in awe and I am in awe. This film helped me get back to movies and once again, making me believe that fantasy is just lying behind the curtain, waiting to be revealed by someone who dares to.
Magical it is, that literally magical word that El Laberinto del Faundo's audience would initially applaud, define, imagine and remember the film named Pan's Labyrinth. But how I define this film is just simple, that I'm completely and utterly mesmerized in everything about it from start to end.
And when I say everything, yes, I mean everything. I mean its cinematography, I mean its art direction, I mean the haunting score, I mean from the story to its character and I mean Del Toro's vivid imagination that gave us a piece of film that I personally, would be remembered for a long span of time.
It is this type of film that has the proclivity to resonate in any one who's ready to get lost with it, which Del Toro himself said during the film's prologue. No doubt it's his best.
I will not attempt to spill any from this film, for this is one of the few that's best watched than read even from any sweet word. To re-iterate, this film is purposely made to fill an adult's fantasy world from an eye of a young one. To make us reminded of the violence in the past of what is history today.
Pan's Labyrinth stunning visual will enthrall you. I would not name other films but I firmly believe that it's (Pan's Labyrinth) the best I've seen on BLU-RAY.
"As a film, I will say it is one of the best I've seen for the past decade and behold, it simply re - defines Magic at the Movies".
Even as an adult, it allows you to immerse in a world that is completely MAGICAL and haunts your inner non- fiction belief.
A mesmerizing film.