Only movies can help you visualize the wonderland of fairies & their magical land and in this case it’s puppets. It affects your senses in a way that it takes a while to come out of it. For those 2 hrs you are in a world where reality is the imagination.
At 54 I am still as amazed, fascinated, blown and wait for a release like a 14 year old. I am sure that’s true for many of us oldies but age is not a factor when you can experience this magical world and let go of your reality.
You walk in as an adult but come out a child. 😀
I have not read the book, but I think all of us know him as a character whose nose grows if he lies. The last remembrance of Pinnochio is in one of the Shrek movies – where he is another character / toy who raids Shrek’s house and later helps him in escaping the castle.
To take such a character and create a beautiful movie which one remembers for a long time after the movie is over requires exquisite vision and execution. Seeing the movie I felt like every scene is from a story book, beautifully coloured and textured. The animation is very different from the Pixar movies which have been laying the rules for animation movies.
Not just the animation, the story also is beautiful with a strong message on war and accepting someone as they are and not comparing them with someone they have in their mind or what they want them (their daughters / wife) to be.
Director Del Toro, known for his visual storytelling, waited for 15 years to make this movie. He used stop motion puppets which are operated through mechanical gears in their heads & the title character was fabricated via metal 3D printing.
Read about it here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/movies/guillermo-del-toro-pinocchio-puppets-stop-motion.html
Do not miss the director’s cut which is also available on Netflix to understand the journey of making the film. There’s a lot which goes behind every scene and every movement.
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