Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006  Spanish language film written and directed by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced by a Mexican film company Esperanto Films. This movie also won three awards  Academy Awards, the Ariel Award for the Best Picture and the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. In my opinion, I’m shocked that Pan Labyrinth won three awards after I saw the movie. The strange plot, characters, everything sure made me puzzled about how did del Toro come up with it. I do have some parts of the movie that I like and hate.

Lets start with what I like, there wasn’t lot of parts I liked but the one part I liked was Ofelia didn’t sacrifice her brother when the fawn told her to. At first I thought that Ofelia would give her brother to the fawn. When she said “No.” My fast beating heart slowed down back to normal. During the movie I just had a gut feeling that the fawn was a “bad guy” but I was wrong, he was suppose to do that, he had to play the part to see if Ofelia could pass the test.

However the antonym of like is hate, and I dislike a lot of parts in the movie. Since Pan Labyrinth wasn’t one of my favorite movies so I have a long list of what parts I hated in the movie, I’ll list a few. One of the parts that I hated most was when the caption killed two innocents because he thought they were lying when they said they had guns because they were hunting for rabbits. The way the Caption killed the first man was just plain awful. I think every scene with the caption in it was awful. So in simple terms all the scene with the caption in it, I didn’t like that part.

Through out the movie, there was a lot of disobedience, that was the movie Pan Labyrinth was mostly about to stand up for one-self. There was disobedience in almost every scene. Disobedience between the girl and the caption, the girl and her mother, the fawn and the girl, caption vs. sociality. Even the part I liked that I explained earlier in this passage was a sign of disobedience.

Aside from which parts I liked, hated and which part had disobedience in it. The movie overall was very strange. It made me think about a lot of thing. The discussion after the movie and in between really cleared things up and it was interesting to hear other people’s opinion about the movie and what they thought about it. I would suggest people who like to analyze, movies that have a double meaning to watch Pan’s Labyrinth.