I'm still shocked at the reviews that received this film when really the story has really nothing to do with Pinocchio. Did we watch the same thing?, I mean. What is Pinocchio doing firing guns in World War 2? When he should be having his non-warlike misadventures in 1826 (that's more than 100 years before the arrival of fascism). Let's say the director took some creative liberties, but can we still call it that when he basically changed everything about the story, from the beginning to the very end, removing important characters and adding new ones that didn't have anything to do with the original tale as written by Collodi. I'm trying not to give away spoilers but I feel like perhaps it would have been better and less harming if they had just come up with a completely different main character and a completely different name. But then I guess they needed the big name to sell it better?
I can't help but think about the recent movie Blonde and the scandal it produced after its premiere, people were outraged, they still are. How the director went too far with their creative liberties. And yet Del Toro followed that exact same pattern and he's getting praised for it?
I can't help but think about the recent movie Blonde and the scandal it produced after its premiere, people were outraged, they still are. How the director went too far with their creative liberties. And yet Del Toro followed that exact same pattern and he's getting praised for it?