I have not cancelled my Netflix account, so I was able to watch Pan’s Labyrinth, the DVD I’ve had out for months. (I missed the shipping fun by just a few days.)
The mélange of history and fantasy shines. The division between the saturated color of the imagination and the stark faded light of Franco’s Spain underlines how people’s minds work hard to find something positive in even the worst situations.
Quite an imaginative film, but #4 on Metacritic’s all-time list with a 98? Not so fast. I’d recommend the movie to most anyone, but glad my expectations weren’t escalated too high ahead of time.
(Still pondering “blog bankruptcy” for the 17 — and rising — books I’ve read but not blogged. Sigh…)