film review
Pan’s Labyrinth
A girl slips out of fascist Spain into a brutal fairy tale that proves, improbably, the kinder of her two worlds. Del Toro declines to rule on which was real, because for her they both were.
what it left me with
Imagination is not escapism when the waking world is the nightmare; sometimes the story is the only redoubt left standing.
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