Very talented actors and actresses indeed

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2007)

This is an extremely enjoyable movie, I must put it out there! 'Who would believe a turning teenager who still reads fairy tales that says that there are such magical wonderful creatures like fairies and other creatures of the woods?' -ignore the grammar- Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) played an amazing role as the daughter of Carmen Vidal (Ariadna Gil), of course her Princess Moanna role, and the older sister of the newborn child. She was amazingly brave throughout every task, the crawling and meeting of the Toad, and of course the last scene is truly without words -Everytime I type the name Ofelia, I begin to get the reenactment of the last scene, it's pretty mind blowing-. She even played the real life role of a young teenager, 'always curious and never obeys', so she decides to check something out of the huge feast on the long table. When the little fairy friends told her not to do so, during that entire scene, I was like speaking out for the fairies: "No, no, no... young lady, put that back down..", "No, you must not, remember the rules..", "Oh no, see what you've done!" and so on... And Ofelia: "Go away.", "Shoo...", "Be gone." "I don't care."... and so on..
And then I went "Oh no, you're in deep trouble now..." As for the commander, 'step'-father of Ofelia, Cpt. Vidal (Sergi López), he was extremely strict and cruel. I felt really bad when he reprimanded Ofelia in such ways several times, and not forgetting the last scene where he actually shoots a 'little girl' aka Ofelia -not to say that Ivana is little- but compared to whom he fought against, those were men opposing his ways, such as following order from the supreme.
All the other actors were good too, including the Doctor, Dr. Ferreiro(Álex Angulo), who stood in between helping both sides, and not forgetting Mercedes (Maribel Verdú) who I believe is a very caring and wonderful person. At the very end, she weeped painfully -like as if she was her real mother- for Ofelia, a girl unimaginably kindhearted and trustworthy who did not spill her identity, one who she couldn't save!
I recommend this movie for all who have read fairy tales and I believe you will be inspired to believe that there are those who believe that they exist -I'll say let Ofelia (Ivana) who played her so well, tell you about 'em-.