Pan's Labyrinth
I recently watched Pan's Labyrinth , a film by Guillermo del Toro. It was a fairy tale set in Francoist Spain about a little girl and her mother who were sent to live with the Falangist Captain Vidal. The little girl, Ofelia, meets a faun, who tells her to complete three tasks. The fantastical world that Ofelia experiences can be compared to the brutal world that she lives in. In the fantasy world, there is a child-eating creature that chases Ofelia. In the real world, the character Vidal is just as despicable and abhorrent as the child-eating creature in the fantasy world. The dichotomy between the two worlds, and how what happens in the fantasy world reflects what happens in reality, is a central subject throughout the film. The visuals in the movie look great, and all of the creatures in the movie look very interesting. Even though the film was made almost fifteen years ago, the special effects still hold up today, and some of the locations in the fantasy world look abso...