Fantasy to make sense of reality

Rating: 10/10 (17 November 2019)

In my first impression the child (Ofelia) creates this imaginary world in her mind in order to try and have a role to play in restoring the order of things (i've seen an interview where Guillermo Del toro said that the decisions the girl makes in the fantasy realm have a decisive impact in the real world). Pan, as he him self points out, is the mountain, the forest and the earth such as greek mithology depicks 'Pan' to be, he represents nature in it's essence, that wich the girl see is corrupted by war and wants desperately to fix. So Pan asign tasks for her, as if nature it's self puts in Ofelia's hands the ability to save it. That goes to show how a child process the things they can't understand in a beautiful, hopefull and most of all fantastic way.