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El laberinto del fauno (2006)
People raved about this in middle school
Now don't get me wrong! I'm not saying that only kids like this movie! It's just that when this movie came out (well when I heard of it) I was in like 8th grade. Anyways, all through out high school my friends would constantly praise this movie and finally (now that I'm 19) I decided to actually watch it.
I was disappointed.
Maybe it was just hyped up so much for me that I was too critical. Anyway, I felt like the fairy tale element should have been explored more and that I felt absolutely nothing for the characters. In the movie we learn next to nothing about them
I also didn't like the little girls character whose name I cant even remember and I literally just got done watching this movie. She seemed a bit flat to me. Like Some pretty tragic things were going on around her through out the whole movie and she was just there. Especially, the whole thing with her ma.
Hands down best character was Mercedes and the Captain. They had dimensions.
For some reason I wanna watch Never Ending Story
Kûki ningyô (2009)
If only...
I really did enjoy this movie. I did but...
This movie followed one of the more popular themes in the Japanese movies I've seen: loneliness and unfulfillment/inadequacy. But it wasn't as deep. Sometimes I felt like I didn't even know what the characters were feeling or even why. Something was missing.
The thing about this movie that bothered me was that there were just so many missed opportunities to really reach home (I don't really know how else to say it.) The movie brings in many minor characters, all of which Nozomi has brief encounters with, to show you their loneliness. But why? Why show these extremely underdeveloped characters who we know near nothing about? Maybe if they had delved deeper in to their lives by increasing their interactions with Nozomi or by having them have "actual" interactions with her(like they had done with the one of the minor characters).
Nozomi also seemed a bit "flat" to me. Maybe this was on purpose? Either way, I wanted to see her grow more. She had gained a heart and she did not seem to have used it much. It was as if she was only half alive. She never cried, screamed or expressed any other emotions sans sadness, child like joy/wonder and there is more than that to being human. If they wanted viewers to understand/feel the loneliness that the characters were experiencing they should have built up the story more. Like was there even a climax?
Nevertheless, this was a good movie! If you are thinking of watching this please do! It was a cute and sad story.