Thanks to reading Chirbes’s diaries, I become more confident in my film criticism. He despised the movie Pan’s Labyrinth for the same reasons that I do. The movie has a cult-like following among pretty much the entirety of my colleagues, and showing it to students is almost obligatory. I almost died of boredom watching it and still haven’t fully recovered from its vulgarity, on the level of the plot, characters, imagery, and sound. This is exactly how Chirbes felt about this movie. I feel deeply vindicated.
Movie Confidence
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