Pans Labyrinth: Ophelia=Mini-Adult
Lauren Brooks
What an intense movie? It’s hard to believe that it was based off of a children’s fairy tale. And the backdrop for the movie was even more intense with the portrayal of the violence in the revolution in Spain. The young girl Ophelia was going through some difficult things as a young child, yet through all the bad she still believed in magic and fairy tales. I can’t imagine all the pain she felt and yet her mom wondered why she needed to believe in these things, especially being a young child.
Her Mom was like many today, they want their children to grow up too fast and make adult decisions. And I got a sense from her Mom in the movie that she wasn’t being taken seriously by her mother, yet when Ophelia was faced with many adult like decisions she made the right choice. Her first adult choice was standing up for her real father and not addressing the Captain as father. A second choice could be when she. The third choice is when she refused to sacrifice her brother, even one droop of blood, in order to become a princess.
If this story, I choose to believe that Ophelia was that princess and that in the end she came back to her kingdom to rule and live happily after. Her pain from being shot and dying was only temporary and can not compare to the joy she fault reigning over her kingdom.
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