Magical Realism at its Best

Rating: 8/10 (19 June 2019)

Ofelia is a girl whose father died and her mother is forced to marry and move with Vidal a captain franquist. Mercedes who is in charge of caring for the captain's family and her camp is an infiltrator of the Francoist resistance.
The story happens in chronological order the way in which the structure of the three acts is challenged is when the time in which history develops is interrupted by Ofelia's imagination where she had a taste for magical literature imagines that it is part of a magical world of mythical fairies and characters, a Faun tells him that he has to meet a series of challenges in order to be part of his father's imaginary kingdom. Also the structure is altered because there are two lines of history with two protagonists, with their own development, conflict and resolution these stories are joined by several aspects but the strongest reason is an enemy in common Ofelia and Mercedes, who aims to keep the protagonists of their desires.