Some movies defy imagination.
Breathe-taking places. Never before seen monsters. Heart-pumping adventures. These are some of
the things that such movies bring. But more than exploring the power of the
imagination, a few leaves us wonderful message and great lessons. That after
watching the film, we are not only awed by its creativity and grandeur, but
also overwhelmed with its story and message. Here are five essential
imaginative movies.
Pan’s Labyrinth. Pan’s Labyrinth (Spanish: El laberinto del fauno, “The Faun’s Labyrinth”) is a
beautiful epic masterpiece by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro, one of the
best movie directors in the recent age. The movie is in Mexican and Spanish
language and though opened in 2006, it was only widely released in 2007.
The movie wonderfully intertwined reality
and imagination in a child’s mind as she braves a trying time. It is set in
Spain in May-June 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil war. Ofelia, a
lonely girl, travels with her pregnant mother and arrives at the post of her
new stepfather, an officer of the post-Civil War Spain. The place is near the
mountains where Spanish guerillas were also living. Unknown to the officer’s
knowledge, several guerillas disguise and work inside the post. One day, Ofelia
discovers an abandoned labyrinth, and inside, she meets a Faun who tells the
fairy tale of Princess Moanna of the Underground Realm who escapes to the
Earth, forgets her past and dies. Both Ofelia and the Faun believe she is the
reincarnated Princess and before she can come back to the underworld, she must
pass several missions. As Ofelia accomplishes the challenges, the war in the
mountains builds up, her mother becomes more ill with her pregnancy, and
sooner, Ofelia is suspected as one of the guerillas as she does things in
secret. In the end, Ofelia, despite her heart-breaking death, becomes the hero
for both worlds.
Pan’s Labyrinth became an instant classic the moment it was opened. The movie
effortlessly weaved great fantasy with a distressful and troubled world. The
fantasy was all so real that after watching the film, audiences would wonder if
everything has been real despite certain small clues in the movie. Expectedly,
the movie is very well received. It gathered a rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
and 98% on Metacritic, becoming the fourth highest rated movie of all time in
Metacritic. In box office, it also performed brilliantly as it places itself as
one of the highest-grossing foreign films of all time. Pan’s Labyrinth
also appeared on several critics’ top ten lists of the best movies in 2006,
particularly in TIME Magazine (#1), and New York Post. Lastly, the movie
received nomination as Best Foreign Language Film in both Academy and Golden
Globe Awards in 2007.
The world inside the labyrinth is very
magical. Each of Ofelia’s adventures is exciting and sometimes scary. The
monster “Pale Man” and the Faun itself are some of the best creatures in the
movie. Pan’s Labyrinth is undoubtedly one of the most creative, most
original and freshest movies of all time.
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