This film is making a political point

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2007)

Pans Labrynth is nicely filmed and imaginative and was definitely one of the most original films of the year. However, the film is not without serious faults, which in my opinion is it's very obvious pro-leftist take on the Spanish civil war. Instead of being objective on matters political, the film sets out to portray the leftists and communists as romantic freedom fighters, and the other side (supporters of Franco, the Catholic Church, the military) as companions in evil. As anyone who knows about the history of Spain will till you, things were far less clear cut than that and atrocities were carried out on both sides. It is my view that a nice fairy tail is spoiled by left wing point scoring, which should be taken with a large dose of salt.