Pan's Labyrinth

So many contrasting themes... civil war and magic, the sadist and the innocent... woven beautifully together. But I don't know some of the scenes were too gruesome for the movie to be a child's fantasy ... that makes the whole movie kind of adult fairy tale movie... ;) the captains acting is too realistic... I almost hate him completly by now... I love the lullaby thats hummed... visual wise nothing very out of the blue, same creppy creatures.... whats best is the way the story is stiched very nicely the civil war and the child's fairy tale imagination... Memoir of a Geisha has a combination of art and war... but the topics arent as apart as in this movie and also the continuous intersection of these too varied themes is really tough... rather dealing with one after the other...