Theme Of Pan's Labyrinth

In the movie Pan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro uses many significant scenes to highlight the important themes and ideas portrayed throughout the film. The scene i will be analysing is the pale man scene. Del Toro uses many film techniques to help highlight the important themes and ideas such as rebellion and disobedience, power and control and choices. Del Toro uses film techniques such as mid shots,diegetic sound, mise en scene and non diegetic sound. An important film technique del toro used was a mid shot. He's used this many times throughout this scene but the one that stood out the most was when ofelia climbed through the door and the audience could see the distinction between the fantasy and the real world. For Ofelia the …show more content…
Del toro showed the audience that we need to choose when it's okay to disobey and when we should not as sometimes there will be consequences for our choices. This relates back to society today as people try and push their luck even after being warned multiple times not to do something and a lot of the times this comes with consequences. An example of disobedience in history would be Anne Frank, even though Anne knew the consequences of disobeying hitler she still did it. Ofelia disobeys throughout the film and she never has remorse for her actions because in her eyes they are seen as the right choice, just like Anne …show more content…
This technique shows the pale man sitting at his table with the fireplace behind him, in this shot you can also see the tall pillars and the checkered floor. The colour scheme is dark reds and browns but although the colours are dark this shot is quite bright. This technique is quite powerful as it relates back to the scene earlier in the film where the captain is sitting at the banquet table with a fireplace behind him. Del Toro did this to show that the pale man and the captain are both seen as villains and are quite similar. Captain Vidal is rationing food during his scene in the film, this relates back to the pale man scene as ofelia was told not to eat any food as there would be consequences.The pale man also has no fear in killing children and as you find out later in the film neither does the captain. Del Toro made the pale man and the captain similar to show that ofelia’s fantasy world is based off her real life. The lighting used in this mise-en scene shot was very bright although Del Toro used dark colours, this is to show that even though her fantasy world is quite dark to her it brings her light and joy. In ofelia's fantasy world nothing can hurt her but in her real world she's easily hurt as she is not in control of every situation she is put in. This relates back to society as world leaders such as donald trump are compared to