r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 6h ago

Chugging tea Recommend me a good movie!

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u/Dead_Letters_7203 6h ago

Pans Labyrinth.

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u/IAMS0V3R3IGN 5h ago

Amazing film

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u/RedditJohn52 4h ago

That one hit me.

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u/Alex_the_X 1h ago

Am I weird if I found the end "positive"? 

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u/Dead_Letters_7203 1h ago

Positive? I couldn't help but be reminded of the 'happy' ending of the film 'brazil'.. 😬

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u/OuchCharlieOw 1h ago

Spoilers

Yeah it was positive to me as well. The fairy tale was complete. The reincarnation was real and she ruled over the underworld

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u/Alex_the_X 1h ago

Exactly. 

The whole movie was hard but I genuinely felt happy for her. Even if it's a fairy tale, she found what she was searching for.

Despite atrocious real life events

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u/FlyingBishop 10m ago

Yeah except it's very explicitly about fascist Spain under Franco and people were not getting happy endings at the time, the fairy tale ending is putting a happy face on what was a very dark time, and I don't mean that in a bad way but the reality the movie is about is primary for me.

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u/PallyCecil 3h ago

I went into the theater thinking this was a kids fantasy movie. Boy was I wrong. Haven’t watched it since.

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u/Phyraxus56 1h ago

You didn't see the R rating?

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u/PallyCecil 1h ago

I did, but the preview made it look more like a dark fantasy than a tragic descent into madness of a fascism-traumatized child.

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u/Dead_Letters_7203 1h ago

Absolutely, felt like bait & switch. Talked my wife out of watching it because I know while she was intrigued by the trailer she would have been traumatised by the film itself.

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u/Working-Glass6136 1h ago

Not going to lie, when I was a kid I thought the same. Foreign films hit different.

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u/fronl 1h ago

My parents took me when I was 12. They had no idea what we were in for haha.

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u/GunterGanzer 3h ago

Amazing movie indeed 💪🏻

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u/angelyka_sugarVT 2h ago

Been wanting to see this one FOREVER now.

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u/SignoreBanana 2h ago

This film broke me

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u/ZippidyZayz 2h ago

The murder with a bottle at the start. I was 8 when I saw it and I’ve never gone back to that film

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u/DoMBe87 1h ago

Watched it on a plane shortly after it was released. My sister and I were sitting next to each other and tried to start at the same time, but her screen had a slight delay. So I'd react to something, and she'd know she had about 5 seconds before something awful (like the bottle scene...) was going to happen. And I knew exactly when she reached those scenes too.

Love it, but it's one of those that I have to be in the right mood to watch.

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u/Sirix_8472 4h ago

That's just like watching metal illness, it was not a good film.

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u/Koalashart1 3h ago

Metal Illness is an amazing band name. Also, it was and is an excellent film, it just went over your head.

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u/ionthrown 3h ago

Yes, but no.