Pans labyrinth essay done in class
Discuss how one or two contextual factors have influenced he aesthetic of pans labyrinth. Guillermo del toros pans labyrinth 2006 is set in 1944, five years after Franco’s victory in the Spanish civil war. the film can be interpreted as a modern-day fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Franco’s Spain. The protagonist a ten year old Ophelia and her pregnant other travel to meet her mother’s new husband captain Vidal in his woodland headquarters. Vidal is a francoist who ruthlessly hunts down remnants of the republican forces who survived the civil war and now wage a guerrilla war against the regime. The entire film is set in the outposts surroundings which act as a microcosm of the wider situation in Spain. Pan’s Labyrinth features a large concentration on the magical fantasy world that Ofelia creates however, the aesthetic is very much real and humanised. The fairies obtain humanistic characteristics; when they die, we see a lot of blood and guts for example. Perhaps ...
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