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Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's backbone
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Has anyone seen these films?
I am studying them at university next academic year as part of Iberian and Latin American studies I believe (I got hold of last years student guidebook thingy so I would think they study the same films next year for the film part of culture studies). Any comments? I've bought them but I'm scared to watch them as they look scary :nervous:
I am studying them at university next academic year as part of Iberian and Latin American studies I believe (I got hold of last years student guidebook thingy so I would think they study the same films next year for the film part of culture studies). Any comments? I've bought them but I'm scared to watch them as they look scary :nervous:
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As Mist said, it's not particularly scary though
Pan's Labyrinth isn't scary, apart from one scene (the scary character's called the Pale Man if you want to look him up beforehand so he isn't a surprise). The step-father's quite aggressive and violent though, which might be upsetting.
For scary films that I need to watch for classes (I HATE horror films) I generally read the plot through, watch clips online, and do any of the recommended reading that the class calls for first. Then I watch the film with a pen and paper, making notes on it and considering things like the way it's been filmed/translated/references to other films and various things like that. And I try not to get immersed in it and just look at it critically.
I think that's a very good idea Grace, I hadn't thought of that before.
I got through the Devil's backbone this afternoon, I actually quite enjoyed it. I did have an interval half way through which helped and I watched it in daylight on my small laptop screen with the sound fairly low (as it was subtitles anyway of course so didn't really need to be able to hear that much).
That being said I did make myself a custom calendar here out of all the creature scenes (a thing I do for my fav movie of the previous year) so I guess horror like beauty is in the eye of the beholder