I liked it. It was a good movie but, wow, did they not hold back with the gore. The movie followed a girl who believes in fairies and can see them. This is only really half of the plot, though. The other half follows a rebellion against the fascist regime. The movie was not hesitant to show blood, which made for some uncomfortable scenes that made me cringe. Once again, the ending was both sad and happy. You see our main antagonist die, but Ophelia also dies. She is however given a stop in her magical world, she is the princess. It is never revealed whether the magical world is real or not, like other people can't see the things that Ophelia is seeing, but a little too much happens for it to really be fake. Once again, Guillermo del Toro has combined fantastical elements with war, and it has worked. This movie seems to circle around the war bit way more heavily, and without the war bit the movie would have been much shorter. The movie was also gorgeous, I really like how his movies use no harsh lighting, there are no bright colors and everything is sort of dull. These dull colors, however, are really pretty and make for a gorgeous movie. I think this movie was really good, I really enjoyed it, and it showed me where the weird guy with the eye in his hand came from, so I give it a solid 8.5/10. It was slow in some places, so it is lacking a little, but it is overall really good.
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I found this movie weird. The message was good, and it did a good job of showing this message, but I did not really vibe with the weird romance. It gave Beauty and the Beast vibes, which for me is weird if it is not animated. The film itself was pretty, it was shot with a noticeable theme of blue and green, which as you can see is also on the cover. This is probably because our protagonist is obsessed with the water, and our creature or "asset" is from the water. It is at its core a story about people who break the norms and people who follow the "ideal" or "model" life. Eliza, our protagonist, is our norm breaker. She is obsessed with the water, and finds the "asset" interesting right away. She gave the impression that she was attracted to the asset, weird to me, as soon as she saw it, and this only grew throughout the movie. It grows to the point where we see her undress in front of the asset, giving us the impression that they had sex. I find the whole romance between Eliza and the asset really weird, it made me uncomfortable, and I feel that the movie could have had the exact same message without it. I understand that one of the minor themes in the movie was feminism and racial equality, but I feel that a completely new race, one that is, although similar to human, different enough to humans is a little too far on the racial equality idea. I would give this movie a 6/10 because it was good, but I found it really weird as well. This movie was exactly what I figured it would be, beautiful and amazing. It was visually stunning, the plot was great, and the meaning was even better. It is shot as a stop-motion movie, which I normally hate, but it is done in such a way that I like. The background are appealing, the movement is relatively natural and doesn't look out of place like some other stop-motion pictures, and the characters were not too wild like other stop-motion pictures. The plot focuses on Pinocchio becoming a real boy in a fascist ridden Italy. It is interesting, with high stake, and suspense. You find yourself rooting completely for Pinocchio during his travels. The ending is sad, which is both disappointing, but also makes the movie stick with you more. Lastly the message is great. Pinocchio is traveling in a fascist country and is meaning all these people who follow Mussolini like puppets. With Pinocchio being an actual puppet, it is ironic that he is the only one not acting like one. He follows his ambitions and goes against the flow of the world, specifically Italy. The message is that you don't always have to follow the crowd, in following your own path you will find out who you are. Eventually accepting everything that you are like Pinocchio and Geppetto did at the end of the story. I liked this film. It was funny and kept me entertained throughout the film. It was not too long which helped and there was a decent amount of suspense towards the end of the film. There was also a score at throughout the film that reminded me of “lala land” which I loved. I also found it cool that the story took place over the course of one day. The pacing of the film is rather fast but since not much happens it helps to keep the audience entertained. I found the film rather funny but also weird. It was weird that all the characters only cared that Harry was dead because if the deputy found out they might get arrested. They seemed to not really care that he was actually dead. This was weird because the normal response would be horror. I also found it funny that they, although they had something to do with it, and that they dug him up and buried him multiple times throughout the single day. I also realize that I like some movies just because of how they look, and technicoloured films look really cool. I would give the film an 7.5/10 because I liked it but not that much happened, so it was not as good as it could have been. |
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