Del Toro’s heart beats louder when he allows himself to play, dreaming his own dreams and respecting his heroes enough to sully them.
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
by Chuck Bowen
Throughout, Del Toro’s book obliterates repugnant notions of “high art” and “low art.”
This is yet another ghost story that insists there’s nothing more chilling than a woman charged with raising a child on her own.
The resulting auteurist splatter both fascinates from a thematic standpoint and frustrates from a narrative one.
A highly interesting aspect of del Toro’s films is their interest in the ambiguous, morally muddled hero.