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Old 01-03-2007, 01:46 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman View Post
I also had a problem with the violence and brutality mixed with even so dark a fantasy world of a child. That's an element that just didn't sit right with me and weirded me out ... but now that I'm aware of it, I'll simply accept the film on its own terms when I get to re-watch it.
I think the violence wasn't gratuitous -- the real world needed to be so scary that Ofelia had to try and escape (into the fantasy world, or into her own mind...).

(Plus those old fairy tales are REALLY disgusting, actually)

Again, this is not a happy tra-la-la fairy story.

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Though if Tinkerbell got her head gnawed off by the Pale Man, that'd be pretty fuk'n cool
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