Pan's Labyrinth Movie Review

Pan’s Labyrinth Movie
Two worlds amalgamated in one movie was indeed a beautiful sight! Fairy tales and scary movies are designed not only to console the viewers but as well as to terrify them. What makes Pan’s Labyrinth a masterpiece is it balances its own magical thinking with the knowledge that not everyone lives happily ever after.

What I loved the most upon seeing the movie was it shows four factors of which even real people could relate although Del Toro (the Director of the movie) already mixed something fictional in the story. I loved its brutality, sorrow and darkness but with something enchantment to shift human interests and made the movie line more interesting. Without these factors, the movie would be as dull as a teacher-dominated classroom.

When you disintegrate the factors linking it to the real scenes in the movie, first we have brutality. Captain Vidal, the wicked stepfather serves both as the real world, real-life villain in the movie showed his brutality towards his pregnant wife Carmen and his stepdaughter Ofelia and as a captain in military aspect, he was not only brutal to the guerillas but as well as to the innocent individuals. It can be seen in the movie his love to punish and torture that was very inhumane towards other people whom he thought were sinful. Throughout the movie, Ofelia and her mom were already in great sorrow upon the treatment of Captain Vidal who just purely wanted the baby inside the belly of Ofelia’s mother and not them. And the setting was already in great chaos. Darkness happened when everything were in doomed and there was no escape anymore but in contrary to the inimical events were the magical occurrences done by the magical intuitions of Ofelia together with her friends Faun and other rare creatures that only Ofelia could see.

A heart-pounding movie written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro wherein in the midst of despondency of war there occurred a child’s never-never land and most of all, the movie has a dark-twisted and a beautiful entwining of fairy-tale fantasy with war-movie horror to capture the eyes and interest of many viewers.