Pan's Labyrinth: Crash Course Film Criticism #9
In 2006, a movie took on authoritarianism and the violent aftershocks of the Spanish Civil War—all through the eyes of an innocent young girl and the fairy tale world she discovers in the...
==========
From Georges Méliès’s lunar landscape to the sands of Tatooine, movies have been transporting us to different worlds since the beginning of cinema. And a lot of these films use their fantasy worlds to comment on the real world that we all live in. Avatar can be read as a plea to protect the natural world, while The Hunger Games takes reality TV and income inequality to their brutal extremes. And in 2006, a movie took on authoritarianism and the violent aftershocks of the Spanish Civil War—all through the eyes of an innocent young girl and the fairy tale world she discovers in the woods. Filled with original imagery and drawing on folklore and fantasy traditions, Pan’s Labyrinth takes us on a journey to a place as violent and cruel as it is beautiful...
==========
From Georges Méliès’s lunar landscape to the sands of Tatooine, movies have been transporting us to different worlds since the beginning of cinema. And a lot of these films use their fantasy worlds to comment on the real world that we all live in. Avatar can be read as a plea to protect the natural world, while The Hunger Games takes reality TV and income inequality to their brutal extremes. And in 2006, a movie took on authoritarianism and the violent aftershocks of the Spanish Civil War—all through the eyes of an innocent young girl and the fairy tale world she discovers in the woods. Filled with original imagery and drawing on folklore and fantasy traditions, Pan’s Labyrinth takes us on a journey to a place as violent and cruel as it is beautiful...
