Pan's Labyrinth Essay

The film "Pan's Labyrinth", winner of 3 Oscars and made by the brilliant and original director Guillermo del Toro, an Mexican-born filmmaker’s known for its unique and fantastic style, may seem at first glance another fairy tale for children with a joyful story and a beautiful and happy ending, but it is a lot far from being so. Set in the early Francoist Spain and after a long civil war, the history surrounds Ofelia, an intelligent and curious girl who loves reading fairy tales, even though most adults think she is too old for such activity and ask her to stop. Because of the death of her father, an modest tailor who probably died in the civil war, and the remarriage of her mother, a calm and reserved woman, she moves to the military camp of his stepfather, an authoritarian and sadistic general who kills everyone who stands in his way without any mercy and the future father of her younger brother.
In the forest nearly the camp she finds a labyrinth inhabited by a mysterious faun who hails her as a princess from another world and he reveals to her that his mission is to help her return to her true home. In order to return to her original world she must have to complete …show more content…
We see a Spain weakened by its recent civil war and the beginning of his fascist period, with the dictator Francisco Franco in power and the rebel forces trying to combat the new government. We can say that "Pan's Labyrinth" is a political film disguised as a fairy tale, or maybe a fairy tale disguised as a political film, which often we do not know to what extent is the real and the magical in the mind of our protagonist trying to escape from her really sad