Pan's Labyrinth Point Of View

In Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, he successfully captivates his audience as he flips between a growing rebellion against Francisco Franco in the 1940’s and a young girls journey to find her own imaginary world. The film perfectly contrasts the uprising with Ofelia’s mythical journey. Throughout the film, the casting was done perfectly as each actor played their character well. Specifically, Sergi Lopez plays Captain Vidal perfectly as his emotion and hate is exquisitely show, especially in his torture scenes. As a whole, Pan’s Labyrinth’s dual story lines are beautifully executed.
The movie is shot from an extremely interesting point of view. Instead of being shot from the rebel’s perspective, the film features a rebellion from the perspective of the government getting overthrown. For this reason, the audience

As Ofelia enters the underworld and the fairies tell her to open the middle door, she still decides to open the door to the left. She makes the correct choice even through it is the opposite of what the magical creates tell her. This ultimately foreshadows her final choice to die and not sacrifice her brother even though Pan encourages her to do otherwise.
Del Toro makes Pan’s Labyrinth feel like a fairy tale. He uses the Mise-en-Scen to do this as opens and closes with a voice over and narrative sequencing describing a magical land hidden to most. He uses the setting of the mythical labyrinth to further this idea. Also, there is a common lullaby played throughout the movie. The lullaby ties the movie together, giving I an innocent childhood feeling.
He continues this fantasy idea through the use of books as a motif. Ofelia uses a magical book to learn the future as well as how to complete her given tasks. The magical book has ink that draws itself propelling the idea of a fantasy