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Adam Whybray's avatar

Not well enough right not to be articulate, but still wanted to say I greatly appreciated that as it is a film that moved me on what felt like a deep, almost pre-verbal level, while simultaneously recognising all of its jagged imperfections - I don't think I'd have it any other way though, I bit like Twin Peaks: The Return or other examples of a great artist's late style.

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Daniel M. Bensen's avatar

The impression I got - and maybe I'm wrong about this - was that the fantasy in the movie was the main characters (Mahito and Natsuko his stepmother) who refused the hero's journeys of their lives. Mahito hit himself with a rock so he wouldn't have to go to school or build a new life here or a relationship with his stepmother. Natsuko ran away toward the end of her pregnancy so she wouldn't have the be the lady of the house. Running away from reality, they ran into a fantasy world, as in Pan's Labyrinth.

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