Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is handsome and well-crafted. But the film’s intertwining of traditional Catholicism, Fascism, and dysfunctional families with gooey sentimentality makes a stew of ingredients that don’t go well together.
"On top of all that old-time fairy-tale savagery, del Toro announced his intention of setting his film in the grim interlude between World War I and World War II, amid the rise of Fascism in Italy. My mind was boggled at the very idea that someone would dare to plunge that far into darkness in a form generally reserved for family entertainment. How would del Toro handle such brutal material?"
lmfoa this paragraph alone is so weird to me that im convinced this mfer has zero idea what they are talking about.
Mfer has this reviewer not watched his other fucking films!? Like all his most acclaimed ones such as Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, The Devil's Backbone are all about the crossing between fantasy/freedom/love and the hell that is fascism (with Pan being set during the fucking Franco regime). Like holy shit I knew Jacobin was demsoc at best but are they just handing out stuff for lib interns to right now before they head off to work for a gov thinktank?
"On top of all that old-time fairy-tale savagery, del Toro announced his intention of setting his film in the grim interlude between World War I and World War II, amid the rise of Fascism in Italy. My mind was boggled at the very idea that someone would dare to plunge that far into darkness in a form generally reserved for family entertainment. How would del Toro handle such brutal material?"
lmfoa this paragraph alone is so weird to me that im convinced this mfer has zero idea what they are talking about.
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There's a cool write up about that that someone posted here a while ago. I can't find it because google only gives me results for Del Toro's
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Yes! Thank you
Mfer has this reviewer not watched his other fucking films!? Like all his most acclaimed ones such as Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, The Devil's Backbone are all about the crossing between fantasy/freedom/love and the hell that is fascism (with Pan being set during the fucking Franco regime). Like holy shit I knew Jacobin was demsoc at best but are they just handing out stuff for lib interns to right now before they head off to work for a gov thinktank?
when I read pinnochio as a kid the blurb mentioned something about the character being used to criticise fascist italy while Mussolini was in charge