Ohhhh, boy; I don’t think I know you well enough to answer usefully. It’s very artistic, has a lot of imagination and humanity and beauty — but it’s also very violent and, in the end, VERY unhappy.
Artsier types will give you a different answer. It really depends on what you like and are looking for. Creative, artistic, well-crafted, horribly depressing: that’s my summary.
Hope that’s of some use.
Thanks.
Sounds like my kind of flick.
Artsy and depressing.
Pan's is good looking anti-Catholic, pro-communist propaganda. The communists are all portrayed as selfless generous people fighting for the greater good. I'll give it credit for portraying one of them as a foreigner (the war involved the soviet union who had troops there and well as native and international fellow travelers). The native Spanish who are Catholic are over the top monsters who kill anyone and anything in their way. How anyone call this movie sophisticated is beyond me. It is dunce simple, Communist good, Christian bad.