To be honest this is a hard movie to talk about because words can't even convey how amazing I think this movie is. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro and released in 2006, Pan's Labyrinth was the best movie of the previous decade. The closest thing I can describe it to is an R rated Alice In Wonderland. The movie opens up with an unknown narrator telling a story of how a princess from a far off land ran away to the human world and since she is not used to her surroundings she dies. Her father believes that her soul will be reborn into a human child, so he opens up passage ways from the human world to his and will stay alive until he sees his daughter again. After the intro you meet a young girl named Ophilia who is being transported to a cottage in the Spanish country side with her pregnant mother. Along the way she solves a little puzzle which releases a fairy who follows Ophilia through out the film. Once they arrive at the cottage we meet the mothers new husband and the father of her baby, the Captain. The movie takes place during WW2 and the Captain set the cottage up as his base of operations so he can fight rebels hiding in the mountains. And let me say this now, the Captain is one of the biggest scumbag piece of sh*t villains I have ever seen in a movie. He straight up murders people for no reason. And is willing to let his wife die to save the baby. He captures one of the rebels who happens to have a stutter and says if he can count to three without stuttering he will let him go, if not he is going to beat him to death with a hammer. All he cares about his himself and the baby. He wants to have a son to carry on his legacy. And he won't let anyone stand in his way of doing so. One night Ophilia is wakened by the fairy and taken to a Labyrinth near the cottage where she meets a Faun (a mythical creature) who believes Ophilia is the princess. And the only way she can return to her own world is to complete 3 tasks which put not only her life in danger, but others lives as well. Pan's Labyrinth is a masterpiece of cinema. Winner of countless movie of the year awards, several movie of the decade awards, a couple of Oscars, and is currently one of the 15 highest rated reviews on Metacritic. This is one of those movies that come by only a couple of times a generation. A beautiful and unique fantasy epic that I for one will never forget.
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