Disturbing Film

In the evening, I went with my friend L. to a showing of Pan's Labyrinth, which I found to be very well done, but deeply disturbing. I didn't know much about it, other than it was a Spanish film with magic realism set during WWII that was recommended by Neil Gaiman in his blog, and that was enough for me. While I was glad I saw it, I had a lot of trouble actually watching many of the gory scenes in the film and am still chewing over my interpretation of its meaning in my head.


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