Friday, March 23, 2007

Yesterday I've seen El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth in English).

The movie for me felt like a distasteful blend between the violent depiction of the 2nd World War and a depressing, grim, boring fantasy world with the limited imagination of a grown-up, who never thought about faeries and magical worlds that much, and was having his first try.

I was asked, why I didn't like the gory details and all that blood, because usually I'm all over bloody massacres in anime. I thought about it a bit, and after a good night's sleep I came up with the answer.
I do not like violent depictions of war (with living actors), because they are killing innocent bystanders, and I throw up from seeing much blood, because my imagination reacts to it, and my body thinks it's real. While in animes bloody massacres are ok, since what I watch do not concern innocent bystanders. I don't watch anime with characters white and black, I prefer shades of grey. (*Cough* Black Lagoon *cough*.)
Not to mention, that I've tamed my body as not to recognize anime blood as real. So now I don't have the going green and looking for the first toilet problem with that anymore. But I still have it with real, living actored movies.
Sigh.

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