Pan's Labrynth (329)

In world humanities we recently watched a movie called Pan’s Labrynth. The movie combined history and fantacy into  one. It was kind of creepy at some points but ill get to that later. Basically the movie starts with a girl and her pregnant mother moving somewhere for an important reason concidering they don’t want to be late and upset whoever is waiting and the fact that the mother is obviously having troubles riding such a great distance in her circumstance and needing a break every so often. When they arrive, a captain is waiting. He has recently married the mother who is pregnant with his son which is an important fact concidering he will pass on his last name. The Spanish war has just ended or almost ended. The mother falls ill and is to be taken great care of so the baby will survive. Meanwhile, the girl has made friends with a fairy who leads her to a fawn. She is the princess of some kingdom with no pain or sun and is to complete a few tasks before the full moon. Her tasks start out with fetching a key from a toad’s stomach and enabling the fig tree to flourish again. The second she is to walk past a feast and retrieve a dagger. After taking a bite of the feast, a very creepy white man with no eyes until he puts them in his hands with long nails like tallons or daggers, wakes up and comes after her. She learns from the pictures on the wall that he eats children.

Anyway, in the end it doesn’t end so well for her or her mother or the captain. But.. the captain was bad anyway so I think that’s a good thing.

I didn’t really like the movie though it was sort of interesting with the guard/army guys and the rebel civilian kind of guys and how they go back and forth probably just as the history goes.