Last night, I saw “The Brothers Grimm,” a Terry Gilliam movie. First of all, I’m quite impressed with the cinematography. The way they filmed it makes you feel like you’re there with the brothers. Angles and camera sweeps are “realistic”, especially in the scene of The Red Riding Hood. The colors in the setting are beautiful; it’s much richer compared to other films, in my opinion.
On the second point, the plot is intriguing. They started the plot with the brothers fooling the small village as if they were getting rid of the demons for them. Instead they used magic tricks. It’s a fantasy movie with references to several fairy tales. The ending was a typical fairy tale ending: “they lived happily ever after.”
I don’t know much about the Grimm Brothers, other than the supposed fact that they collected and wrote the fairy tales. I’m not so sure if they actually did exorcisms of so-called demons in these small villages. According to my quick research, they did not. They went to law school and became fascinated with local folk stories. So they collected and wrote the stories.
Lastly, this is not the movie to show to kids. It has some really scary, gory and unexpected scenes. I was a little disappointed, because it would be cool to show to kids and have them identify and analyze different fairy tales. Strong language was also used. The overall grade I would give this movie is 4 out of 5.
