i really don't like seeing people get killed in front of me. I know it's fake blood and all. but it could have been better without those gory scenes. it was a great film. great story. they should've known there were kids watching it. I watched it with my nephews and i told them to cover their eyes when it came to the scenes. I loved it but i don't think i have the courage to see it again.
2007-10-31 22:59:50 · 11 answers · asked by Sam 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I know. The film could have been made to look beautiful. But I guess that's the story that the filmmakers wanted to tell... with all the gore and all. But I did like the film.
2007-10-31 23:24:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At any rate, Pan's Labyrinth is no film for children. But this is my personal take on this movie:
The "Gore"...the violence and ugliness of the real world is a tool to accentuate the beauty of the girl's fantasy/magical realm.
The Officer's brutality....his mericless murder of the hunter, the torture scene....must be SHOWN. If the audience only KNOWS he is a bad man, but is not forced to witness the brutality......the film would leave the door of sympathy wide open.
When the officer finally dies, we want him to die, we know he deserves to die. We don't see it as a cold blooded murder of a man who has surrendered.....we see it as justice, an excecution.
Some people oppose the death penalty....but how many crime scene photos of brutally murdered victims have they looked at?
My point is it's far too easy to feel sympathy for a criminal if we've never been confronted with their crimes.
When the officer is wounded, and sews his own stitches, we are obviously seeing a very, very strong opposition character. The officer is this strong, how can the young girl prevail?
As for the combat sequences.....war is brutal.....why should they have sugarcoated it and made it seem harmless?
The art to a film is manipulating an audience. There is no room to doubt what the officer is, he is malicious and evil.
The girl is innocent and her goals are beautiful. The audience wants the girl to prevail, and they want the gore to end, and the girl to escape the reality and enter her fantasy realm.
If the real world isn't that bad for her...why would we want her to escape it?
2007-11-01 06:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by d h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it was gory just for effect, an authentication of the early-1900s setting...But I believe it has specifically to do with the writer and director, who was trying to make a theatrical name for hisself, rather than to make a mystic movie for children to enjoy.
I personally am not squeemish or ill-minded to the sight of gore...I do not watch movies to see gore, mind you, but being a rather young male, it doesn't get to me.
(Though a person of any age could go an entire lifetime without seeing a man's cheek slashed in half to give him a disgustingly wide smile.)
Refer to paragraph one and you'll notice that I actually did answer the question before distracting you with my babbling. Anyway, I hope it satisfies your need for an explanation.
2007-11-01 06:07:26 · answer #3 · answered by Maitreya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty of warnings on it and it is rated R so.. no, they shouldn't have to assume kids are watching it. However, as a child I used to watch movies FAR worse than that with no problem.
The reason it is so gory was because it was a gory period in history, and it was one of the reasons she was so intent on the fantasy element. She wanted to get away from the "real" world's harshness. (although, even the other world was harsh)
2007-11-01 13:01:31 · answer #4 · answered by kaijawitch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean.. I was expecting something totally different. A real fantasy movie. Like the "Chronicles of Narnia" Silly me. "Pan's Labyrinth", (although, I loved it and have watched it a couple times) left me with nightmares. That white creepy thing with the eyes in his hands????? Shiver. And when the Captain smashed that poor man's head to pieces with the bottle??? Horrible. Same thing happened to me with the movie "The World According to Garp", I thought it was suppose to be a comedy. I left the theater in tears. Now, I've learned to never trust the "trailers"
BTW....If I had watched "Pan's" with my nieces ....I would have been disowned. " Voted off the island" as we say. lol
FYI.. Pan's is listed as a Drama, thriller, fantasy.... not Horror
2007-11-01 08:33:28 · answer #5 · answered by mamacollins61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shock factor. It gets people talking about it, just like you are now.
Also for the realism. It is set in a war and I guess it would seem more realistic to but a bit of gore in it. It's an unconventional take on fantasy. A hybrid genre, which we're probably not used to seeing.
2007-11-01 07:16:51 · answer #6 · answered by Scatkat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree I loved that movie and the torture scene was so uncalled for the guy at the movies said it was not for kids but a adult fairy tail, I didn't expect so much killing either ,but I still love it and will watch it again
2007-11-01 06:05:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has ratings on the back. If you don't like blood, gore, or torture, don't watch it. It's as simple as that. It's gory because the director and writer wanted it to. That simple.
2007-11-01 06:13:39 · answer #8 · answered by Paige H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know, blood isnt really all that bad...you have lots of it in you right now...and death is just another part of life, get used to it...as far as the gore in a movie, thats just how they wanted to make it, let them do what they want
2007-11-01 06:02:18 · answer #9 · answered by Kiril 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was rated R for a reason.
it has a dark story to tell.
why would you take your nephews to an R rated movie? (or rent it for them, whichever the case may be)
2007-11-01 09:54:27 · answer #10 · answered by zero 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋