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dreamsharkI talked Richard out of attending the Winter Carnival Parade in favor of dinner and a movie. We had an enjoyable dinner at our favorite Indian restaurant, Passage to India. Then we walked two blocks to the Lagoon and took in Pan's Labyrinth.
You may have heard that this movie is a little dark. Unremittingly grim is more like it. Well made, but relentlessly depressing. It starts at the tail end of the Spanish Civil War and then things really start going downhill. Don't count on the "fantasy" sequences (if that is indeed what they are) to provide a moment of relief from the dismal goings on in our heroine's real life. You've seen that disturbing still shot of the monster with the eyeballs in the palms of its hands? Well guess what: that's his GOOD side.
You may have heard that this movie is a little dark. Unremittingly grim is more like it. Well made, but relentlessly depressing. It starts at the tail end of the Spanish Civil War and then things really start going downhill. Don't count on the "fantasy" sequences (if that is indeed what they are) to provide a moment of relief from the dismal goings on in our heroine's real life. You've seen that disturbing still shot of the monster with the eyeballs in the palms of its hands? Well guess what: that's his GOOD side.
