the devils backbone and the firemans ball

All though the premise of this film is slightly simliair to Pan's Labriyth. It's not like it very much. I know it's the same director too.
Taking place in an orphange during the spanish civil war. there are some simularities but this is all boys not a girl so thats pretty big difference. He's very good at caperturing young boys in this film and i can understand why they would want him to direct a harry potter movie. He was the original choice for the third harry potter movie but he did hellboy instead.
This is a very well told movie and i think if you have kids in the 12 age this is much better then all the tween crap that is coming out now a days but I don't think this is as good of a film as Pans Labriyth and really just see that first. but don't rule this out completely. It's a very good film with very well thought out characters and makes me wounder what del torro is going to be doing in 10 years. He's defently one of the stronger directors around. anyway it's worth seeing.


This film is by Milos Forman who would later do one flew over the coocoos nest and amadeus. This is a film he made in poland critising the government. How does he do it well a group of fireman badly trying to organise a ball and an even less organised beauty contest that they can barely pull together. I can see why his government banned the film.
The older fireman who run everything have little idea how to run anything and less about what is going on. But they think everything is going great. sometimes they admit it but not to anyone at the ball. really this could be about an government which makes the film so strong. It's alot like the animal farm in a way because you can easily understand what it's getting at. This is a coo film and i liked it so maybe you will to