[SPOILERS] Film Club Discussion - Pan's Labyrinth

Okay my review.

I've already seen this movie before, and I've always liked it. I know it can be a bit difficult to understand, but it's still a pretty good movie. Well, it's also easier for me since I speak spanish hehe.

The reason why I like this movie is because of the darkness to it but at the same time the fantasy side of it gave it a nice feeling. If this movie hadn't had any fantasy it would be a tragedy....

I can't think of anything to improve, I thought the film was excellent overall, perhaps adding more magical creatures would have made it better, I would have liked to see more of that, but it was still good.

I thought the ending was great. The ending could have been sad or happy, I think it's the choice of whoever watches it. That's one of the aspects I like the most. I like to go with the happy ending myself. Her human body died but she went to the magical kingdom. Also I was glad that damn captain got justice, he was an asshole.

My rating's 10/10.


@sayWut
It was during WWII but it didn't have anything to do with it. This happened in Spain during the final stages of the civil war. The captain(girl's stepfather) was sent there to hunt down the remaining rebels. Also it was insinuated that he sent the girl's father to the front lines so he could be killed, I don't remember that part very well. Anyway so yeah he has no relation to the girl he's just the stepfather. Okay continuing so the girl was a princess in the underground magic world many years ago, but she wanted to see the light from the human world. So she went up, but when she saw the light for the first time it was so bright to her she died and lost her memory. She was reincarnated into the girl, but her memory still didn't come back. Her father had opened many portals for her to find and come back and the one in the movie was the last open portal. The faun's job was to instruct her and to make sure she hadn't turned completely human, a mortal, and that her immortal essence was still here. So that's why she had to do the three tests. The frog, the dagger, and at the end it was supposedly to kill her baby brother but the real test was NOT to kill him. So she passed and after her human body was killed she went to the magic kingdom underground.

And about whether it was real or not I think it's up to you, you can either go with the sad ending, or with the happy ending.

If you have any questions let me know

I like the fantasy, it gives it a magical touch.

I dont think, anything needs to be improved, its just perfect.

Rate 9/10

I like the ending, she died but she went to the kingdom. The ending was kind of sad and happy, i have to agree with sporadic.