Pan's Labyrinth

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ever since Leo saw the trailer of this movie, he wanted to watch it. Moreover knowing that it was nominated at the Oscar's. It won for best cinematography, make-up and art direction. It should've won the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. It was really good.

The story is set in Fascist Spain where there was this young girl called Ofelia who travelled to rural Spain with her pregnant mother to be with her stepfather, a ruthless captain. In her new home, she meets a fairy who shows her a different world.

According to the different synopses I read, Ofelia created the world from her imagination to help her deal with the ugliness of the war but I would like to believe that the world that she sees is indeed real. That she indeed came "home" when she died from the mortal plane. Though the writer might not meant it to be, I can still believe it to be real.

Though the story is not common, it's still not something new for me. Filipino folklore is rich with faeries and children disappearing because they ate the food of the faeries. They disappear to live with the "other" folk as they've forgotten the mortal world when they ate the food.

Watch it! Get the DVD!