Pan's Labrynith

Pan's Labyrinth is easily the most visual abstract movie I ever saw in my life. The way Del Toro was able to take his vision and put it in movie form. I was impressed it took him two years to produce this movie. He even lost 45 pounds in the process. When you hear about that, you can't just not think about the dedication and perseverance Del Toro had.
I like how at the beginning of the movie, Del Toro starts it off with Ofelia laying on the ground bleeding. It definitely drew my attention and I wanted to find out why was she bleeding? What happened to her? Where is she? From that point on, I was hooked. In this movie, everything was abstract. From the costumes to the setting, I got a creepy, gloomy vibe. The main reason Del Toro created this movie was to instill a sense of disobedience in our minds. He disobeyed basically every rule in making a movie. I'm sure somewhere in the director's guide of making movies there's something that says "Bright colors is a must and cheery vibe is needed to capture the audience attention" Del Toro did the opposite. He chose heavily saturated colors to use as his palette. The characters were always wearing something dark. For example, Faun's fairies ate meat and looked very glum. That's how I came up with the "anti-tinkerbell" idea.

The turning point in the movie was when Ofelia's mother died. During that point, I got a feeling that the captain told the doctor to make sure Ofelia's mom die and save the baby. That was just immoral. I hated it when Ofelia’s mother made her call the captain, “Dad” To me, that was very wrong on so many levels. Ofelia is just a young kid. It’s hard for little kids to deal with a loss of a parent. You can tell in the movie that Ofelia took the loss of her father very hard. She refused to call the captain “Dad” and I give her kudos for that. I also felt so bad for Ofelia and I felt her pain. What did she do to deserve such things to happen to her?
Del Toro reveals the severity of fascism in the movie. Fascism robs people of their individuality to feed the greed of one person to achieve superiority. You can imagine how people around the world deal with this matter every day. We should be thankful we live in a democracy rather than having a communist, or fascist America. God Bless America.