Pan's Labyrinth evaluation

The movie Pan’s Labyrinth is one of the movies of the year. Pan’s Labyrinth received 3 Oscars, 68 wins and 58 nominations. Pan’s Labyrinth got $37,384,484 in box office. It is like fairytale but for adults considering it is gruesome and visually imaginative movie. del Toro is a divided soul, a realist attuned to the strange vibrations of the supernatural, a lapsed Catholic ('not quite the same thing as an atheist') with an interest in sacrifice and redemption. When he made the movie, he confessed he lost a lot of weight and was disturbed by the movie in which he said almost destroyed him. del Toro often uses insects or insect imagery in his movies. He also uses religious relics and artifacts. He used fairytales and religion to make this movie phenomenal and illusionary. He mixed fantasy and reality into one and created this masterpiece.  In the movie, there were links of some scenes to other fairytale stories like Hans Christian. Del Toro referenced Alice in wonderland as an influence to his film. Pan’s Labyrinth is certainly not a children’s movie because of the grotesque scenes. The captain killed Ofelia because of his pride and because Ofelia took her brother. Guerrillas in the end kill the captain. Ofelia reunited with her long lost family.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/05/features.review1