imdb (8.4\/10.0)<\/a>: Drama, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, War…<\/p>\nEl Laberinto del Fauno is all of these things in equal portion. I found myself wishing that it weren’t so violent, so that Bella could watch it; but even though there were scenes where I had to cover my eyes, I have to admit that that the horror and violence was an integral part of the story. The backdrop of the guerilla warfare in Spain is mirrored in Ofelia’s own insurgency – seeing and believing in fantasy is always some kind of resistance to the pain of daily living, isn’t it? I loved how the story was told from the perspective of the little girl and the fairy tale nature of having three tasks to fulfill before the full moon. I lay in bed last night thinking about how we create our reality around us.<\/p>\n
Another A. (Chad says he would give it a B+, but remember he has the flu right now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pan’s Labyrinth is well described by its genre categories on imdb (8.4\/10.0): Drama, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, War… El Laberinto del Fauno is all of these things in equal portion. I found myself wishing that it weren’t so violent, so that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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