Guillermo Del Toro
The director of Pan's Labyrinth gives one of the most brilliant and entertaining interviews I have ever heard.
posted by sloth @ 9:06 PM
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
The director of Pan's Labyrinth gives one of the most brilliant and entertaining interviews I have ever heard.
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Del Toro discusses the role that fantasy & fairy tale play in everyday reality: "Republican / Democrat, Left / Right... Morning / Night, all these things are conceits. These imagined conceits can create such horrors... fantasy is considered a "low" concern; religion, politics, etc. are equally inventions."
Milton, Mary Shelley, Odillon Redon, Arthur Rackham all figure into his thinking, and there are fascinating discussions of the history of the Spanish Civil War and his childhood in Mexico.
Haven't seen the movie yet, so I don't know if it lives up to his vision...
i saw it. i see about 1 movie in the theater a year and this was it. it's beautiful, poetic, but GRIM. I was so shaken by it that I cried all the way home on the subway like a total freak. Couldn't shake it. It's simple in a way - just right. I would recommend but don't go on a day when you're feeling down.
I agree, FB, it was beautiful but so harsh at the same time. You leave the theater wishing, hoping, for the fantasy to be "true," somehow, to win out over the horrors of real life. I found it kinda painful, because I don't believe. But I wish I did. But then I'd be a flaky freak. So there you have it.
I am really curious now! and thanks for the warning re: darkness. I'll arm myself with a gross of Jelly Bellies in the new SSRI Tropical Fruit Funz® assortment...
Hey, it's no more dark than your average morning with a cup of coffee and NPR.
aye aye jd. right you are.
i listened to this interview this weekend and it is really good. i especially like the discussion about how bad things are necessary for good things. this is how we find meaning. I though a lot about this this weekend - how it also relates to struggle. I also liked his assertion that our world is completely illusory - - that politics is no more real or unreal than fairy tales or monsters. they are all constructs.
This is super intriguing, though the grimness may scare me off. Too sensitiff. But...you guys make it sound so good.
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