Film Review - Guillermo del Toro's "Crimson Peak"
Personal Rating:
Throughout this film review, I share my thoughts on Guillermo del Toro's visually striking gothic-romance film "Crimson Peak", released in 2015. In particular, I focus on how the film tells a story through symbolic imagery, colour theory, and unusual, bold choices in set design. Anyone who is familiar with del Toro's work knows that he has a proclivity for leaning towards the strange, dark, and beautiful in terms of his worldbuilding, the most evident example of this being his Oscar-winning film “Pan’s Labyrinth”, released back in 2006, and he continues this pattern in "Crimson Peak", expanding upon the look and feel of the late Victorian era to make it feel at times as though you've entered another world entirely—while he's definitely taken some creative liberties, ultimately favouring essence over realism, I think this choice ultimately works in his favour. All in all, a gorgeous film.
**Content Warning: For anyone looking to watch this film, just be aware that it is rated "R", and contains depictions of gore, violence, sensuality, coarse language etc and as such, it may not be suitable for younger viewers.
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