Pan's Labyrinth

[mozabilly54]

Has anyone else seen this movie? Isn't it amazing?

[josephv909]

yea, i thought it was a great movie.

[PotVsKtl]

The little girl choosing to eat the grapes for no reason made me basically hate this film. It was a blatant plot motivator with no reasoning behind it.

[amyzzz]

She's a kid. If you had a kid, you'd know that temptation is incredibly difficult for children to ignore.

[chairmenmeow47]

The little girl choosing to eat the grapes for no reason made me basically hate this film. It was a blatant plot motivator with no reasoning behind it.

that was the only thing i was annoyed with, there didn't appear to be much motivation for her to do that. grapes!?!? dude, if it was a pizzookie from oregono's or something i could understand, but grapes?!?!

[josephv909]

well i think it had something to do with the fact that there was a grape shortage due to the war so she hadn't had grapes in a long time.

[PotVsKtl]

She's a kid living in an opulent household with no shortage of food and treats, in a room with a hideous monster and wall murals depicting that monster impaling and eating children, mere moments after being emphatically warned multiple times that eating anything would most likely result in injury or death. It's stupid.

[amyzzz]

I thought it was dumb too, but kids are like that sometimes.

[sddoctor]

wasn't the little girl denied dinner that night by her mother?...the move to eat the grapes was dumbfounding, but the movie was still spectacular.

[amyzzz]

I also thought it was an allusion to Greek mythology--Persephone had to stay in hell because she ate some persimmon <?>) seeds, and that place sure as heck looked like the underworld to me.

[€uroMeinke]

She also didn't open the door the fairy told her too - part of her journey was figuring out when to follow instructions and when to follow your heart. Sometimes kids don't do as they are told, and maybe that's a good thing...

[PotVsKtl]

I thought it was dumb too, but kids are like that sometimes.

Like what? Suicidal? It's a fucking monster. There. In the room. A monster whose actions she does not even need to imagine as they are played out across all four walls of her surroundings. Her thought process, we are led to believe, is essentially "Well, I'm not in any actual need of food, and I will probably be impaled and eaten by a monster, in fact, have been explicitly told that will be the outcome of my actions, but I think I'll just have a couple grapes." I don't know any kids that stupid. I guess they might exist.

[chairmenmeow47]

I also thought it was an allusion to Greek mythology--Persephone had to stay in hell because she ate some persimmon <?>) seeds, and that place sure as heck looked like the underworld to me.

i thought of the whole "eve and forbidden fruit" thing.

fucking women, our hunger ruins it for everyone

[Yablonowitz]

Grapes can be very satisfying. I'm not sure you're aware of the seductive power they hold.

I haven't seen this movie.

[James]

great movie, I saw it last night. So what, she ate the grapes. Big deal. If she hadn't, the monster never would have got off his ass and that scene would have been boring.

[mozabilly54]

great movie, I saw it last night. So what, she ate the grapes. Big deal. If she hadn't, the monster never would have got off his ass and that scene would have been boring.

I agree. That monster was scary too. His wrinkles grossed me out though.

[PotVsKtl]

great movie, I saw it last night. So what, she ate the grapes. Big deal. If she hadn't, the monster never would have got off his ass and that scene would have been boring.

That's my point. If you're OK with characters having no identifiable set of motivations just so a movie can move along and have cool scenes, that's your business. Knowing that it's stupid and you are wrong is my business. Stay out of my business.

[James]

That's my point. If you're OK with characters having no identifiable set of motivations just so a movie can move along and have cool scenes, that's your business. Knowing that it's stupid and you are wrong is my business. Stay out of my business.

You're overanalyzing a fairy tale.

[PotVsKtl]

It was stupid the second I saw it. No analysis required.

[pdhow]

Jumping into this post....sorry. I think she was motivated by her hunger. She was denied dinner by her mother. Which the director made that scene as a result of the previous one, thus movie his story along just fine in my opinion. However how come she put in the key in a different hole then the one shown her by the fairy is perplexing to me and was without its own consequence. Every other wrong decision had a consequence, why didn't this one. Overall good movie, i was hoping for fairytale personally.

[RockStr4Life]

The movie was amazing...so visually stunning.

[TomAz]

I like grapes, myself.

[The Nichole]

the best part was when mercedes (i think that was her name) stabs that guy. i was like yelling in the theater for her to do her worst!

[schoolofruckus]

They weren't even seedless grapes. This movie upset me and I had a hard time handling it. I can't say I "didn't like" it - but I don't think I'll be watching it again.

FYI -

This is Jennie, not Gabe. Whoops. Gabe can handle his movies coming off the screen and stabbing him in the heart. I have trouble with movies where horses fall down. There's a distinction.

[suprefan]

Yeah just saw it and found the good bootleg copy of it, sucha good movie and the end just gets ya.

[KungFuJoe]

I'm not going to waste time with all the details here, but there are a lot of biblical refrences in this film that most people apparently didn't pick up on. Myself included, until further analizing it after a second viewing with my friend.

[corbo]

my fav movie of 06

[schoolofruckus]

Yeah just saw it and found the good bootleg copy of it, sucha good movie and the end just gets ya.

Dude, are you homeless? You scalp every ticket you get your hands on, you watch bootlegs of movies...do you pawn your mother's furniture and jewelry as well? Seriously, you behave like a bum; it's okay if you are one, but it's despicable if you're not.

[Alchemy]

This movie was amazing.

[doobie420]

this was the first movie in a LONG time that actually gave me chills while watching it. the guy getting the broken bottle in the eyes and mouth, the stutterer getting the hammer across the face, general vidal getting his mouth slit open on side and getting a knife to the top of his mouth...all pretty brutal and well done, it definitely showed the brutality of the time. terrific movie, and guillermo del toro kicks ass.