Pan's Labyrinth Activator

Visit 3 websites and design a blog post using pictures and text.  Write what you think the film is about, it's major themes, which genre it may fit into, and use of cinematography.

***Ive already seen the film so i'm going to go into this writing this pretending like I have never seen it.

Photos are from Google

According to IMDB the film is directed by Guillermo del Toro and the films original language is spanish. Its based of a set of books and it's set in 1944 during the Spanish Civil War in Falangist Spain. It has "bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world." (IMDB) Its rated R and it was released in 2006 as a drama/fantasy and its run time is one hour and fifty nine minutes.

This is a picture of the Fawn and the main character Ophelia.

According Wikipedia The narrative intertwines this real world with a mythical world centered on an overgrown, abandoned labyrinth, which the film gets its name from, and a mysterious faun creature (named Pan, also which gives the film its name), with whom the main character, Ofelia, interacts. The film employs make-up, animatronics, and CGI effects to bring life to its creatures.

This is the Pale Man from the film.

According to a review cite called Roger Rebert, The film is visually stunning. The creatures do not look like movie creations but like nightmares (especially the Pale Man, with eyes in the palms of his hands). The baroque organic look of the faun's lair is unlike any place I have seen in the movies. When the giant frog delivers up a crucial key in its stomach, it does so by regurgitating its entire body, leaving an empty frog skin behind.Del Toro moves between many of these scenes with a moving foreground wipe -- an area of darkness, or a wall or a tree that wipes out the military and wipes in the labyrinth, or vice versa. This technique insists that his two worlds are not intercut, but live in edges of the same frame. He portrays most of the mill interiors in a cold blue-grey slate, but introduces life tones into the faces of characters we favor, and into the fantasy world. It is no coincidence that the bombs of the rebels introduce red and yellow explosions into the monotone world they attack.

This is Mercedes and our main character Ophelia