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...rebel zone he is patrolling. Ofelia, fiercely loyal to her mother and dead father, and rightly suspicious of the Captain, feels the force of strange creatures from the moment she arrives at her new home. While the adults career toward confrontation and tragedy, the girl becomes immersed in the magic world in the surrounding forest...
...PENETRATING MAGIC...
...Even Dylan is astonished by his once-upon-a-time virtuosity. "I don't know how I got to write those songs," he told Ed Bradley in a Dec. 2004 60 Minutes interview. "Those early songs were almost magically written." Quoting a few lines from "It's Alright, Ma" ("He not busy being born is busy dying"), Dylan says, "Try to sit down and write something like that. There's a magic to that, and it's not Siegfried and Roy kind of magic, you know? It's a different kind of a penetrating magic. And, you know...
...knew it was magic, those of us who thumbed a ride on the Dylan astro-rocket as it blasted out of Greenwich Village in 1961-62. Even then we knew that he was changing everything. First he updated Woody Guthrie's notion of the topical folk song and made it his own, creating anthems that were the sound track to the early-'60s Civil Rights movement. Then he smartly ransacked the tropes of every hip lyricist from Bertolt Brecht to the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then adapted his righteous belligerence to the standard love song, upending...
...shame Dylan's penetrating magic couldn't last. But it was great while it lasted...