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| Arwon Posts: 619/631 |
Finally saw this, and loved it. Was amused by the constant swearing which wasn't translated into the English subtitles, and my inner Spanish history geek was giddy at the Falangist uniforms and the "yoke and arrows" insignia and all that lovely fascist rhetoric.
People lamenting the fantasy aspects being secondary are missing the point. The time and place was deliberate, very deliberate. Spain in 1944 was a harsh and desperate place to live. The movie is primarily a parable about fascism, and life under fascism both in terms of collective horror and the impacts on the individual psyche... and this is reflected in the nature of the promises and demands made by the faun to Ofelia which, otherwise, looked a bit random and pointless. The juxtaposition, for example, of the food-lines and rationing versus the banquet she wasn't allowed to touch lest she trigger the wrath of that beast... was obvious and striking. Likewise, when the faun, in giving Ofelia a second chance, demands unquestioning obedience, he is directly parralleling the Doctor's final words to the captain about obeying for the sake of obeying. And when the faun demands the blood of an innocent, this is pretty directly in keeping with fascist ideas about the ends justifying the means and about sacrifices for the greater good. Meanwhile: Here's some reading on the Spanish Maquis resistance to the Francoists and Nazis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_maquis Interesting stuff. |
| Ziff Posts: 1697/1800 |
I purposefully avoided reading anything about the movie. I was quite shocked with how it turned out. But god damn, it was excellent. |
| Sin Dogan Posts: 843/861 |
I saw this Friday night. Very good movie. I saw Guillermo Del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone" and knew what to expect in terms of violence, brutality, creepiness, and unexpected twists and turns in the plot. It was just really awesome. Anyone else seen it? Not for the squaemish though. Really not. |
