Film Critique: Pan's Labyrinth

                                                           

                                                           
                                             Photo taken from: Alianza Latina film showing

                      Pan’s Labyrinth- Alianza Latina Film Showing. (2015, October 6).

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Plot

The movie pan´s labyrinth is about a girl named Ofelia. Like any other girl Ofelia believes in fairies, she dreamt about becoming a princess. The story happens in 1944 post civil war in Spanish. At the start of the story Ofelia and her mother Carmen was on a travel to see the stepfather of Ofelia. During the travel the car stopped because Ofelia´s mother felt dizzy and started to vomit while her mother is sick Ofelia explore around and something caught her attention. There was a stick like animal that seem to look like a grasshopper but not just any ordinary animal this animal will help Ofelia find out the truth about herself her own identity. Ofelia and her mother arrived to their destination, at first Ofelia thinks that her stepfather is good but she was wrong her stepfather is sadistic and cruel with everyone. Ofelia saw A vast stick creepy crawly, which Ofelia accepts to be a pixie, drives Ofelia into an antiquated stone maze, yet she is halted by Mercedes, Vidal's maid, who is subtly supporting the revolutionaries, who incorporate her sibling, Pedro. That night, the creepy crawly shows up in Ofelia's room, where it turns into a pixie and leads her through the maze. There, she meets the faun, who trusts she is the resurrection of Princess Moanna. He gives her three assignments to finish with the goal for her to obtain everlasting status. In the interim, Vidal murders two nearby ranchers confined on doubt of helping the agitators.  

About the Author

The author Guillermo del Toro have directed many other films he is a Mexican film director,screen writer, producer and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces. The film utilizes subtitles for its interpretation into different dialects, including English. Del Toro kept in touch with them himself, since he was baffled with the subtitles of his past Spanish film, The Devil's Backbone. In a meeting, he said that they were "for the reasoning debilitated" and "unbelievably awful". He went through a month working with two other individuals, and said that he didn't need it to "feel like... watching a subtitled film". Del Toro has said the film has strong connections in theme to The Devil's Backbone and should be seen as an informal sequel dealing with some of the issues raised there. Fernando Tielve and Íñigo Garcés, who played the protagonists of The Devil's Backbone, make cameo appearances as unnamed guerrilla soldiers in Pan's Labyrinth. Del Toro got the idea of the faun from youth encounters with "clear imagining". He expressed on The Charlie Rose Show that each midnight, he would wake up, and a faun would bit by bit venture out from behind the granddad's clock. Originally, the faun should be an exemplary half-man, half-goat faun loaded with excellence. In any case, at last, the faun was changed into a goat-confronted animal totally made out of earth, greenery, vines, and tree husk. He turned into a baffling, semi-suspicious relic who gave both the impression of reliability and numerous signs that caution somebody to never trust in him by any stretch of the imagination. 

My thoughts about the movie

The story is fantasy but the children must watch this movie with an elder because the movie is brutal yet you can get many lessons. The story is well made the plot of the story is new and different form any other movie. The ending of the story is unpredictable because you can think of many other ending for the movie. After the movie you will still think of what will be the next part of the story what happens with Ofelia and her baby brother and for me the strategy of the director is very good because it will persuade people to watch the movie. When you watch the movie it is not only your eyes that’s working but also your mind because your mind are forming many different questions like what will happen next or is Ofelia a real princess. The efects in the movie is commendable because we can see that they use complex make-up and animatronics. For me overall the movie was great and I would love to watch it over and over again.