The Orphanage

Another Gulleirmo Del Toro's movie made in year 2007. I just managed to watch it today. It entered Malaysia market so late!

Yeah. Another good movie even tough it is not directed by Del Toro himself, he is only the producer.

Nevertheless, i still prefer his another great piece of work "Pan's Labyrinth". I watched "Pan's Labyrinth" last year and it really sent me the sense of satisfication. What a great movie! The movie has successfully delivered its message that the Facist group in Spain was doing all kind osf cruel act to oppress the rebellions during the reign of General Franco. The general inside that movie was a typical Facist character. The movie also tries to tell how eager a little girl to live in the world that she has been longing for. There are all kind of magical funny frictional characters in the movie. It is full of imagination and yet it is not childish. This movie is not for children anyway. The nicest part is even tough the movie's story is separated into 2 major lines from the beginning, but eventually director managed to cross the 2 lines together and formed an excellent ending.

"The Orphanage" has less "magic" factorsl than "Pan's Labyrinth". Its story goes quite smooth. It reveals the mystery bit by bit and by usual, it tries to spook the spectators with sudden loud sound effect. I am not satisfied with the story anyway because when the movie ends i still do not know how Laura's son died and why did those children ghosts wanted to kill him. The movie does not tell about this, instead it emphasizes the maternal love and it made me touched in the end where the lady committed suicide just to see her son in another "world".