Pan' s Traps

We had a get together at A’s house to watch Pan’s Labyrinth. They already saw the movie and highly recommended that we have a look. I sent Sienna to Olivia’s house because the movie, though half of it was about fairy and turning into a princess, was supposed to be dark and sad. But half way though, it was already 9:30. I had to go and brought Sienna to A’s house. She saw the last part of the movie when the girl Ofelia, after accomplishing the 3 tasks assigned by a faun, became a beautiful smiling princess in front of her mom and dad, the queen and king.

I enjoyed the time we spent together watching the movie and sipping red wine more than the movie itself. I wish I could have better things to say about the movie. The three Oscar Awards Winner failed to win my appreciation. It’s not that I didn’t get it. Only I didn’t buy it. The husband feels the same way.

To depict human emotions, you can only depart from human nature. Sometimes you experience the process and subtleties of emotions without being able to clearly identifying them. The director of this movie tends to category these emotions before he started showing them. I feel things with an open heart but I usually refuse to have my eyes closed. One has to be subtle to get me experience the emotional process. I see in the movie all the emotional traps that the director set up and marked out and played up. Why go there?