2. To me it is in a way a good ending (but maybe not 'happy'). Ofelia is re-united with her mother in death (where that takes place, I don't know. The underworld, a 'twilight' world or maybe even some sort of heaven).
Did you also think she died and gone to heaven? Or was this the well-deserved kingdom of Underworld? And in any way, what the baby was doing there? This is one of the things that stuck in my head as a strange image – Mother and the Baby. I guess it should be connected somehow with the fact that Spain is predominantly Catholic.
3. I don't know if it was because of the fact that I had seen pictures of Pan and the Pale Man before, but I never was really scared by all the elements of the fantasy side. The giant toad (?) was a bit nasty. :)
I think the baby-looking root with its crazy movements was the scariest part for me. And it is not like I was scared like when watching horror-movie. I w\as rather scared as when reading "Turn of the Screw". I find it very scary when something what is supposed to be healing or good looks like it is going to eat your brain any minute. :D
Pan is testing Ofelia. Three tasks of complete. She does the first thing without asking. During the second one she already starts to disobey the orders she's been giving (she eats grapes) and when it comes to the third task she refuses to give Pan her brother. Which is just what Pan is excpecting from her.
I like this, this is a very interesting point. I remember you were wondering why she eat the grapes. I just thought that she eat them because there was a spell on them (and the whole table) to make them irresistible.
I guess this is one of the films which have many different explanations.
So since I first wrote my thoughts things are much clearer now to me. I still have some issues with the plot development of the war part, but it now leaves a much better overall impression.
I thought that the war part was more about Ophelia's step-father then about the war – may be like the whole war was shown through this one single man.
The war bits still are somehow not serious for me, they had no real danger. All the torturing and bad things were happening to the characters we knew nothing about, it was like if the torturing was there "just because", just for the show. The major characters were safe. Doctor was shot, but I was expecting Captain to torture the doctor. He could have provided very valuable information. And I would have expected Captain to search Mercedes and find her knife, especially because she was always using it.
BTW – have you seen "Hot Fuzz" already? We just came back from watching it, it was fabulous!
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Date: 2007-03-06 09:57 pm (UTC)Did you also think she died and gone to heaven? Or was this the well-deserved kingdom of Underworld? And in any way, what the baby was doing there? This is one of the things that stuck in my head as a strange image – Mother and the Baby. I guess it should be connected somehow with the fact that Spain is predominantly Catholic.
3. I don't know if it was because of the fact that I had seen pictures of Pan and the Pale Man before, but I never was really scared by all the elements of the fantasy side. The giant toad (?) was a bit nasty. :)
I think the baby-looking root with its crazy movements was the scariest part for me. And it is not like I was scared like when watching horror-movie. I w\as rather scared as when reading "Turn of the Screw". I find it very scary when something what is supposed to be healing or good looks like it is going to eat your brain any minute. :D
Pan is testing Ofelia. Three tasks of complete. She does the first thing without asking. During the second one she already starts to disobey the orders she's been giving (she eats grapes) and when it comes to the third task she refuses to give Pan her brother. Which is just what Pan is excpecting from her.
I like this, this is a very interesting point. I remember you were wondering why she eat the grapes. I just thought that she eat them because there was a spell on them (and the whole table) to make them irresistible.
I guess this is one of the films which have many different explanations.
So since I first wrote my thoughts things are much clearer now to me. I still have some issues with the plot development of the war part, but it now leaves a much better overall impression.
I thought that the war part was more about Ophelia's step-father then about the war – may be like the whole war was shown through this one single man.
The war bits still are somehow not serious for me, they had no real danger. All the torturing and bad things were happening to the characters we knew nothing about, it was like if the torturing was there "just because", just for the show. The major characters were safe. Doctor was shot, but I was expecting Captain to torture the doctor. He could have provided very valuable information. And I would have expected Captain to search Mercedes and find her knife, especially because she was always using it.
BTW – have you seen "Hot Fuzz" already? We just came back from watching it, it was fabulous!