pan's labyrinth meaning?

Question

I have no idea what the point of this movie was at all. Does anyone have a theory or a good website that explains it??

Answer 1

OK, instead of giving you a link to the official website, I'm going to try to explain it to you. Hope you can 'get' it...
This movie is supposed to examine how fantasy can sometimes resemble real life. In the beginning, we are clued in as to Ophelia's fascination with fairy tales. Her first shot if of her reading a book, and her mum chiding that she is too old for fairy tales. When she first meets the Captain, she clutches the book to protect herself, offering the wrong hand. She constantly wanders into the forest with the magical book (which probably in reality is empty or one of her books).
Throughout the movie, Ophelia proactively creates her own story, she's not a witness to seeing it being played out, she chooses how it wants to be told. The frog and the pale man are her projections of her evil stepfather, and the way how she kills the frog or defiantly eats the grapes in front of the pale man is her way of rebelling against him, if only in her mind. The banquet room symbolises the kitchen, the magical key-the larder key, the denial of food to her- the denial of food to the rebels (she knows this because she saw Mercedes hiding the rebels' letters). The magical mandrake root she places under her mum's bed was an actual root from the kitchen. Recall how Mercedes was seen dicing a root vegetable for dinner. As for how she got into her father's room using the 'magical' chalk, her father could have been too preoccupied with stitching his wounds to have noticed her, so she 'imagined' she drew herself in. The labyrinth walls parting could be explained by the dad having a momentary lapse or was too drunk to navigate his way, but he still reached the center in the end. The captain's preoccupation with the broken watch is a metaphor for the seconds ticking down to his death, and of Fascism.
Now do you understand? The point of the movie was to teach us never to forget the wonder of fairy tales and childhood, and that even in death, good will always triumph against evil. The tagline, "Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine," is very apt. Innocence=Opehlia, Evil=Captain. Put a period after 'power' and it reads, "Innocence has a power. Evil cannot imagine." For children always possess the power to dare to dream that adults, grown with cynicsm and mistrust, can't.
It's a very awesome movie with layered meanings. Hope you appreciate it more now. :)

Answer 2

I guess I'll never get the whole 'Prince of Peace' thing and then so many millions have been murdered, tortured and otherwise ruined in his name. The book really is a lame mythology lesson. I think the Greek myths are a lot better.

Answer 3

http://www.panslabyrinth.com/

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