Pan's Labyrinth Essay

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The Tragic Fairy Tale "Pan's Labyrinth" is directed by Guillermo del Toro, it was a magical realism drama. The screen shows the magical world of bizarre situations, an imaginary character Pluto's daughter "Ofelia" was roam to the underworld. The time of 1944 as the background and the fascist murdered the left-wing guerrilla fighters as a real-world story. The whole film was intertwined by myth and reality, It was a complete metaphor and reflection on the Spanish civil war. One side was the little girl’s innocent fairy tale, while the Nazis was inhuman torture and slaughter. Two living scenes intertwined in a film, this brought out a moral and human conflict. This innocent view was see through from the child’s eye, which was Ofelia’s …show more content…

At the beginning of the film, Ofelia and her mother drove to the captain's camp. When she picked up the remaining piece of the status on their way, she putted it into the head of the statute. We note that she putted on the left side of the eye. From then on, the little girl will be able to see the elf that the human world can not see. It seems that Ofelia found from the left-wing perspective. Then, she began to "see the world using left eye." Moreover, when they arrived at the camp, Ofelia met the captain for the first time. In the scene that they shaked hand was interesting. Ofelia holded a several fairy tale books in her right hand, trembling stretched out her left hand. As the captain of the fascist officer, he stretched out his right hand, grabbed her left hand, coldly said: "it's the other hand, Ofelia." A left-wing meet with the right-wing, break up in discord. A few minutes later, in the labyrinth Ofelia solemnly said to Mercedes: Captain is not my father. Firm severed any legal dictatorship with the right-wing. Ofelia went to the pale man's underground palace to perform the Pan's second task. There was three wickets on the wall. In accordance with the instructions of several elves, she should open the middle door. Ofelia hesitated and opened the door to the left, and took out a shining dagger. Elf pointed out the middle road, Ofelia once again adhered to her left-wing

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