This is not to say that the latest from director Guillermo Del Toro is a copy of the work from those authors. Quite the opposite since this movie is so full of his universe that is a very personnal movie of his.
What I mean is that this is, in essence, a pure fairy tale. And in that it has to be beautiful, but also cruel.
In a way, it's better to know as little as possible when seeing this.
It's about using imagination to escape from the harsh & horrible reality. It's about creating his own monsters to flee from the real ones. How the most rationnal and intelligent mind can become a monster, due to his lack of dreams. And how imagination is the way to saving yourself...
It's a wonderfully crafted story that keeps you on your toes from the beginning to the end. It's a fairy tale, but one that children shouldn't see, as the uncompromising violence of some scenes are not for the faint of the heart. One that keeps you thinking long after it's over. Because, like a fairy tale, behind the story lies something about us, humans.
Cruelly violent, beutifully sad.
This is a masterpiece.
Below is a very interesting article written by Guillermo Del Toro for the magazine Empire.
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