Pan'[S labYRINTH

And so yesterday we watched pan's labyrinth at college.The story is setup during the spanish civil war time.the story not only talked about the violence and bloodshed at the time of gen.marco's dictatorship but a simple story ran parallel to it.What fascinated me was the fact that the little protagonist (like every one of us)dreams so much so that her perfect dreamy world becomes real for her.(The way i interpret the movie)Ofelia(the protagonist)is a child who cannot bear all the violence and darkness around her..and so through her fairytales she tries to get some ray of hope.in her fairytale she is a princess and she "must" complete some tasks before being "reunited with her father".
I absolutely loved the movie..even though it was a tragic movie but the story actually deals with so manyy human aspects besides brutality and war.It shows the innocence and pureness of a child's heart and how we as people try to live in a makebelieve world(built up by our subconscious mind) to escape our humanself and the pain we get from the real world....