Pan’s Labyrinth: Movie Review
Pan's Labyrinth Plot Summary It starts like any good fairy tale with a story about a girl. And not just any girl: the princess of the Underground Realm. We realize that this might sound like kind of scary, ominous, up-to-no-good girl, but she's really just young and curious. So curious, in fact, that she escapes to the mortal world where she's blinded by the sun, forgets who she is, and lives a life of pain and fear before dying. We're first introduced to eleven-year-old Ofelia and her mother Carmen as they travel to Captain Vidal's estate. Carmen is pregnant and Ofelia's mind is lost in the realm of fairies. She even thinks a bug is a fairy and not like a beautiful, gossamer-looking butterfly. She thinks a nasty stick insect is from the land of pixies. When they arrive we meet Captain Vidal, who's Carmen's hubby and his men. They're busy fighting the rebels living in the surrounding woods. Ofelia, led by the creepy stick insect, does ...