Pan's Labyrinth impressions

When I watched Pan’s Labyrinth for the first time, I had a bad impression from the movie because of its complexion and detailed gore. In addition, I was offended with showing dying of a child. It was distressing to see Ofelia’s eyes flickered out and blood oozed down her lips. But, when my brother pleaded me to watch the movie with him again so I sat down and watched all over from the beginning. I discovered many abstract things and the meanings behind them. I realized that there is a lot more behind the gore. I brought the movie and watched the movie many times and kept finding different things. I kept changing my inner version of this movie every time when the flower bloomed in the end.

The positivity of the movie is the beginning and the end. The beginning with Ofelia reading fairy tales, a fairy tale means a plot with love at first sight nor happily ever after. The hint of Ofelia reading a fairy tale told me that this movie will end happily. Actually, Del Toro gave out a complex point of this hint because the sad part is Ofelia dying but the happiness is the flower blooming. At the first, I believed that the movie will end with a smile branded on my face, I didn’t smile. But after watching the movie more than few times, now I can smile at the end because I realized that Del Toro is trying to tell me that the point of end is not with Ofelia dying but the blooming flower. Also the positivity is by the colors of the beginning and the end. The beginning and end included warm colors such like ruby red, sky blue, olive green, sunny yellow, and many more. In the between the beginning and the end, there is so dark colors such like black, gray, navy blue, etc. But in the end of the movie, the warm colors were brought back. The most positive thing in the movie is the white- purity blooming flower in the end.

The negativity of the movie is the middle. The middle is completely dark and gruesomely. The darkening point started when Ofelia entered in the tree and encountered the frog king. The negativity hit me when the captain reshaped the peasant’s face, torn a rebel’s hand into half, shot the doctor with loads of bullets, and shot Ofelia with no feelings. Also the word of disobedience turned me off. Ofelia ignored the three fairies by eating a grape in the monster’s dungeon, mother refused to believe Ofelia with her imaginary world, Mercedes hid her secrets away the Captain, the doctor gave painkillers to the Rebels while helping the Captain at the same time, and Ofelia told the Faun no to kill her half brother. The most negative thing in the movie is the captain killing Ofelia with no regret.