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Re: Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth
I'm not as high on this film as many others are. Perhaps it's the character of Capt. Vidal that just didn't work for me, basically evil incarnate, in this tale. I would call the film brutally unflinching, but its impact on me just left me cold or indifferent to the outcome, be it ambiguous or wide open to personal interpretation. After the film ended, some scenes just made me scratch my head as to why they were even in the film, besides to just make the viewer uneasy. The pacing of the film wasn't all that tight, and the intermingling of the real world and Ofelia's "mythical" world never meshed for me.
I guess it's worth a matinee, but it didn't quite thoroughly work for me.
I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.
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