First week of the creative studies class, we were free to talk about any topic that we feel related to the word creative. As what I feel, I think that movies is the source of my creative ideas. So this week I choose to talk about a a movie which tells a stroy of a dark fairytale, Pan's Labyrinth.
This is a Spanish fairytale that happened in 1944, 5 years after the Spanish Civil War. The main character is a 10 years old girl name Ofelia who's mother was remarried to a Captain Vidal who hunts down the communist at that time. Ofelia and her mother moved to her stepfather's military station deep in the jungle to wait for her mother to deliver her young brother. Here, Ofelia started to encounter weird incidents and creatures when she accidentally enter an abandoned labyrinth. In here, she meet a strange creature known as the Faun who addressed Ofelia as the lost princess of the Underworld, this labyrinth served as a door to the Underworld and he was the guide to wait as lead her back to the Underworld kingdom. In return, Ofelia must succeed to complete 3 tasks in order to prove her eligibility as the Underworld princess.
In this movie, I can see the wish and what hopes of different kinds of human beings who live during the period of war. Whether is the pride that the Captain Vidal strongly holds to live up to his father's expectations, or the simplest hope of a little girl who wish to escape the cruel reality of the world, this movie shows that in that time, everyone has a labyrinth in their heart that they wish to escape to. It also depicts the emotions and desperate of child who lived in the time of war, desperate to help the people they love but the helplessness of being too small to help others force them to escape to a fantasy world.
In the end, Ofelia tried to escape with his baby brother, but the labyrinth is still shut. She had nowhere to run and eventually shot to death by his stepfather. Her blood which drips down to the labyrinth triggers it to open. It is said that Ofelia's act of defying the last quest to kill his brother and instead sacrificing her own life proves the purity of her heart and thus fulfill the last quest allowig her to go back to the Underworld while in the real world, she died. This scene always makes me think of the child who lived in war zone, as if the ending of this movie is what they see and hope for when they innocently died from the attacks around them.
0 comments:
Post a Comment