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[Pan's Labyrinth]

I think that's a fairly common interpretation of the movie, actually!

I think the director made it ambiguous on purpose in order to have some people think like you and some to think that she was actually a princess. So, neither version is wrong.

Yeah, I think either version is valid. I personally think everything she saw and did was real, but I'm a fantasy nerd so that's how I like to think of it in general. But I can see it being all just her imagination, as a way to escape.

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chanterofelegies - 2012-10-18 23:26 (UTC) - Expand

That movie broke me for about two weeks after seeing it with my mother.

Even looking back now, I don't know what it was that upset me so much, but when I got home after seeing it for the first time, I quietly sat in a chair in our living room and cried for a solid 3+ hours. In retrospect, yeah, OVERREACT MUCH? But I think it was one of the first movies that was just straight up tragic and horribly upsetting all around.

And yeah, it's a great movie; but I don't know if I could stand to sit down and watch it again.

This happened to me too. I saw this movie a couple of years after it came out in theaters, and I went into it thinking that it was a full of magical whimsy. No, I honestly don't know what possessed me to think that. Maybe because it had ~fairies~ and Doug Jones in another role that required him hours upon hours to get his costume and make-up on. I don't even.

I really want to believe that Ofelia got her happy ending, but man. That movie broke me.

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tyger66 - 2012-10-19 01:52 (UTC) - Expand

I did thew same thing with this movie, and The Deep Blue Sea.

I cry every time I hear the soundtrack

tyger66 - 2012-10-19 01:50 (UTC) - Expand

I had nightmares for *weeks* after seeing Pan's Labyrinth. It was just.... horrible. Not a horrible movie. But *horrible*.

It is known for being one of the few movies that does a really apt job of showing some of the brutality that goes on during war (Outside of the battle field). That said, it's one of my favorites, given how much I love mythology, but it is extremely intense. Not a good movie to watch if one is not up for a rigorous emotional tugging.

Don't see The Orphanage.. I found that much scarier.

I agree with you though, Pan's Labyrinth is very upsetting.

That's the beauty of Pan's Labyrinth, it's up to your interpretation!

I personally like to think she really did become a princess because if any little girl deserved a fairy tale ending, it was Ofelia.

This is most likely intentional.

That said--remember when the stepdad throws the mandrake into the fire, and the mother screams and sickens immediately? I think that was the one indication, the proof, that it was actually happening.

The one thing that makes me think it was actually happening? When Evil Stepdad is chasing Ofelia through the maze, and the hedge parts to let her through and then reseals itself. Evil Stepdad comes barreling through and she's gone and the hedge is closed. What's the potential real-world analogue of that moment? She pole-vaulted over?

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I go with your version but part of me so badly wants to be able to believe it was all real because my true feelings on what was going on are just depressing!

Luckily, there's no reason you should believe that! Enjoy your interpretation--it works!

Well there are scenes that have the little fairies in them, watching, and doing other stuff, so that implies that it was real, but, of course, being that it is all fiction, you can't really prove it one way or another.

Oh, God, this grammar is killing me, but, I thought that was the intended interpretation? I mean, that she kills herself and suddenly wakes up in front of her parents is not exactly easy to interpret otherwise.

Agreed :D

I'm pretty sure Guillermo del toro said they were supposed to be real...like a rite of initiation.

Magical realism: You're doing it wrong.

Yeah I thought that was kind of the point of the movie...

Am I the only one here that actually thouht it wasn't so good? I had only an ashamed emotional response the entire time because I thought she was a brat and wanted her to get eaten by the pale man.
Nonetheless, that theory is totally fine. I thought it that way too. But other interpretations can work as well.

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I think that's implied in the film, although not necessarily schizophrenic, as she was a child I just thought it was a fantasy world. ALthough I do think you could read it as some kind of near death experience, that sort of thing, if you believe souls go somewhere after death, it could have been her soul wandering.

In the commentary for the movie, Guillermo del Toro said he intentionally put in clues to make it plausible for both sides to make the argument on whether or not it was real.
Then he follows it up with saying that to him it was all real. The proof being that Ofelia was able to escape from her room with the chalk and the tree growing at the end. He went on a bit more about how it can be compared to how one views their religion and what they believe will happen to them after they die. He says there's no difference. Something along those lines, it's been about a year since I've watched the movie with the commentary.