I don't get the story "Pan's Labyrinth". Can someone tell me w!
Question: 1. Was the girl halucinating or was she just imagining things because she wanted to?
2. What was reality and what was imagination?
3. Did the girl actually die at the end?
Answers: 1. Was the girl halucinating or was she just imagining things because she wanted to?
2. What was reality and what was imagination?
3. Did the girl actually die at the end?
It's been awhile since I've seen the movie. In the beginning there was a princess that lived in a fairy kingdom, she was never to leave that kingdom, but one day she journeyed out into the world of reality, became sick and died.
Her father the King, promised he would wait hundreds of years before she was born again in the reality world, to have her return home.
Ofelia in the real world loved fairy tales, this was a way for her to escape the harsh realities of life (imagination).
Her imagination intertwined with the world the princess originally came from. The story goes on, she is tested to prove she is the real princess.
At the end, she dies in the real world, but returned to her kingdom in the fairy world, as a princess.
What makes it easier to understand is, it's a spirit of a girl that travels through time.
Wow, that was hard to explain, Lol,.
1. She was imagining to escape the pain of her real life.
2. I don't know what you're asking. The creatures and stuff were in her head, the rest was real.
3. Yes, she really died.
The whole idea of the story was to keep the watcher guessing, #1 is for you to decide.
the entire thing with her mother and the evil guy was real. the rebellion was real.
Yes she died at the end
everything was reality. the girl was a princess of some magical kingdom. she was reborn to a human or something. and the tasks given to her by the faun was to test if she was worthy to rule the kingdom. when she died at the end she returned to her kingdom.
don't remember it that well, it's been a while since i watched it.
1. Obviously people will have two opinions about this though. people might say that she imagined everything to escape from all the stress ; the war, her mom, her step dad, and her new sibling. Other people might say that she really saw those things. BTW this is a fairy tale :p
2. The reality was that her mother was pregnant, there is a war going on, and her step dad is a crazy lunatic.
3. Like 1, there can be two possibilities to this answer; she could be dead, or she could really be in that world of hers!
The movie opens with a fairy tale. Princess Moanna of the Underground Realm, curious about the world above, escapes to the Earth, where the sun blinds her and, forgetting her past, she weakens and dies. None the less, her father keeps the hope that her spirit will eventually return.
The story then cuts to post-Civil War Spain in 1944, with Francisco Franco firmly in power. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), a young girl who loves fairy tales, has traveled with her very pregnant mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil) to join Captain Vidal (Sergi López i Ayats), her new stepfather and father of Carmen's unborn child, at his post in the mountains. Vidal, the son of a famed commander who died in combat in Morocco, believes strongly in falangism and was assigned to root out any anti-fascist rebels.
Ofelia discovers a large insect resembling a praying mantis which she believes to be a fairy. It follows her to the mill where Vidal is stationed. Ofelia chases it into an ancient labyrinth nearby. Before Ofelia can enter, she is stopped by Vidal's housekeeper, Mercedes (Maribel Verdú). Later that night, Ofelia overhears Mercedes and the local doctor conspiring to help the rebels, one of whom has been severely wounded. Upon her mother's request, Ofelia tells a story to her unborn brother, trying to sooth the fetus and her mother. She relates a fable about pain and loss, and the promise of eternal life. After waking her in the middle of the night, the insect appears in Ofelia's bedroom where it changes into a fairy and leads her through the labyrinth. There, she meets the faun (Doug Jones), who believes her to be Princess Moanna. He gives her three tasks to complete before the full moon to ensure that her "essence is intact". Meanwhile, Vidal is summoned to question a farmer and his son, the former having been found in the mountains with a rifle. Vidal listens to their claim that the father had only been hunting rabbits, but when the son interrupts, he snaps, brutally beating the son on the face with a glass bottle, before shooting both of them. He then resumes searching the farmer's bag, where he discovers a pair of rabbits. Later, he requests Mercedes to cook them for dinner.
Ofelia completes the first task of retrieving a key from the belly of a giant toad that lives deep beneath the roots of a fig tree. Ofelia is becoming more worried about her mother, who has been ordered to stay in bed as her condition has worsened. The faun gives Ofelia a mandrake root. Accompanied by three fairy guides, Ofelia then undertakes the second task of retrieving an ornate dagger from the lair of the Pale Man (also played by Jones), a gruesome, child-eating monster who sits motionless in front of a large feast. Although she was gravely warned not to consume anything or face death, she eats two grapes, awakening and angering the Pale Man. Violently devouring two of the faires, he pursues her, but she manages to escape by drawing a new door with the a magic piece of chalk given to her by the Faun. Later Ofelia puts the root under Carmen's bed. When it is set in a bowl of milk it animates and after being fed two drops of blood it instantly begins to cure her mother's illness. Ofelia asks one thing of her unborn brother to keep their mother alive and in return make him the prince of her underworld. Infuriated at her disobedience for having eaten the grapes, the faun refuses to give her the third task.
Meanwhile, Vidal becomes increasingly vicious, torturing a captured rebel. Vidal kills the doctor who euthanised the tortured prisoner to stop his pain, because the doctor disobeys orders to heal the prisoner so that more torture can be administered; the Captain also discovers evidence that he was aiding the guerrillas. Meanwhile Vidal catches Ofelia tending to the mandrake root. Rising from her bed, Carmen throws it into the fireplace where it then begins to scream. Instantly, she develops painful contractions and dies in childbirth. Vidal discovers that Mercedes is a spy, and he captures her and Ofelia as they attempt to escape. Ofelia is locked in her bedroom, and Mercedes is taken to be tortured; however, she frees herself using a hidden knife with which she slices Vidal's cheek open from inside his mouth, threatens to hurt him further if he hurts Ofelia and flees into the woods where the rebels rescue her.
The faun returns to Ofelia and gives her one more chance to prove herself. He tells her to take her baby brother into the labyrinth. She then uses the magic chalk to sneak into Vidal's room. Ofelia steals the baby after sedating Vidal; although disoriented, Vidal continues to chase her through the labyrinth while the rebels attack the mill. The faun tells Ofelia that the portal to the underworld will open only with the blood of an innocent, so he needs a drop of her brother's blood. Ofelia refuses to harm her brother and the faun disappears. Vidal finds her, takes the baby and shoots Ofelia. She falls to the ground, bleeding to death.
When Vidal leaves the labyrinth the rebels and Mercedes are waiting for him. Knowing that he will die, he calmly hands Mercedes the baby. He takes out his watch, ready to break it so his son will know at what time his father died and tells Mercedes to tell his son when he grows up what time his father died, reflecting his own father's death. Mercedes refuses, telling him that his son will never even know his name. Pedro, one of the rebels and Mercedes' brother, draws his weapon and shoots Vidal in the face, causing a hematoma in his right eye and brain, killing him.
As Mercedes enters the labyrinth and sits over the dying girl, humming her lullaby, drops of Ofelia's blood drip onto the altar which was the gateway into the underworld. The scene flashes to a dream like state: Ofelia is reunited in spirit with the king (Federico Luppi) and queen (who is her mother) of the underworld. The Faun is there with his fairy companions flying around him (including the ones previously eaten by the monster). She learns that sacrificing herself, instead of her brother, was the final task and she has proven herself to be the Princess Moanna and has achieved immortality. The moment Ofelia learns she is the Princess, she smiles, and at that same instant, in the real world, she dies.