A very good film.

Rating: 8/10 (27 October 2017)

The films darker topics (such as political violence, sadism and horror to some extent) were well balanced with fairy tale aspects, which gave it a more digestible and understandable way of exploring such heavy political topics. The cinematography, performances, makeup and visual effects were all so brilliant and helped ground the film as well as linking the fantasy to the harsh and brutal reality. The story itself was well written and very enticing as it did well to bring together both a very dark story with a very fantastical one, without it feeling too odd or one or the other feeling too out of place adjacent to one ever so different. Overall it was an extremely good film and definitely worth watching.