To spill innocent blood
"To spill innocent blood" is one of the tasks to be fulfilled in the movie Pan's Labyrinth.
http://www.panslabyrinth.com/
This movie, in its original language Spanish "El Laberinto del Fauno", is by far the best quality movie I've seen in a damn long time.
Sorry Jack-dear, but Pirates is a blockbuster after all...
Everything about it moves me. Everything about it is thrilling and captivating. The sounds and the dark themes and the sad purity of the story.
And even though it is not a completely original idea for a plot, the movie is superb. The unknown actors and actresses are nearly perfect.
And the monsters scared me to an inch of my life. Not because of extreme horrifying features or because of the extreme abundance of blood -it was shocking, the short-lived but arresting violence- but because these monsters -or more realistically THE monster (in singular) is so weird and moves so awkardly.
I love the detail that in the middle of the movie, the child protagonist told a fairy tale to her unborn brother: such a dark thing, a story of sacrifices and loneliness and eternal death/inmortality. The fable of a single graceful rose blooming in the pitches of hell.
When I saw that part, I already knew, that the ending was going to be a beautifully sad one, because Pan's Labyrinth beauty is based in the odd but exquisite things hidden among shadows.
