{"id":1053,"date":"2008-02-26T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/pans-labyrinth.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:19:21","slug":"pan%e2%80%99s-labyrinth-%e2%80%93-fantastic-faun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em> \u2013 Fantastic faun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this movie much later than I wanted to \u2013 in fact I wanted to see it before watching last year\u2019s Oscars. That obviously did not work out as planned. Therefore I took the opportunity when the filmclub of Darmstadt University of Technology showed the movie a few weeks ago. Seeing it at the film club had the added benefits of a low price, carry-in food to your liking, and evading the dubbed German version of the movie. <q lang=\"es\" title=\"Spanish word for war\">Guerra<\/q> has a certain ring to it. It is somehow different than <q>war<\/q> or <q lang=\"de\" title=\"German word for war\">Krieg<\/q>. One thing, however, is almost always being evoked by this word: cruelty. The cruelty of war is not hushed in this movie, but the movie it achieves something much more important and much rarer: it shows how a child uses a world of fantasy to cope with the terrors that haunt herself, those who are dear to her, and those who are a threat. Is it only her fantasy? You should watch the movie and then decide. Latin american film and prose often has this magic twist. In any case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0868219\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for the director\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a> has made a very good movie that is certainly worth watching. The movie got three oscars and a whole lot of praise. Because of that, I had very high expectations \u2013 they were not disappointed, but they were also not exceeded. Even though I am sure <em xml:lang=\"es\" lang=\"es\">El Laberinto del fauno<\/em> will loose a bit when watched on DVD it will still be a very good movie. Spanish language cinema has quite a bit to offer these years, don\u2019t miss it!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0457430\/\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0457430\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this movie much later than I wanted to \u2013 in fact I wanted to see it before watching last year\u2019s Oscars. That obviously did not work out as planned. Therefore I took the opportunity when the filmclub of Darmstadt University of Technology showed the movie a few weeks ago. Seeing it at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,11],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darmstadt","category-movie","category-review","tag-guillermo-del-toro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}