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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

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Vidal silenced his officers with a wave of his hand. The fear on their faces never ceased to please him. It even made him forget what a miserable place this was, so far away from the cities and battlefields where history was written. Being stationed in this dirty, rebel-infested forest—he would make it count. He would plant fear and death with such precision that the generals who had sent him here would hear about it. Some of them had fought with his father. There once was a forest in the north of Spain, so old that it could tell stories long past and forgotten by men. The trees anchored so deeply in the moss-covered soil they laced the bones of the dead with their roots while their branches reached for the stars. Your Horned Highness,” the sculptor said, “may I offer my humble skills one more time to find our lost princess?”

When Ofelia goes into the ailing tree to fetch the key from the belly of the giant toad, she says this to the toad. Even though the large amphibian is rather intimidating, Ofelia insists to him that he does not scare her. The faun hands Ofelia The Book of Crossroads, which include the instructions for how to complete the three tasks. After he disappears, Ofelia opens the book and is confused to find that there is nothing inside. Yes, Mercedes had a brother. Pedro was one of the men hiding in the forest, a Maqui, as they called themselves, a resistance fighter, hiding from the very soldiers Mercedes cooked and cleaned for. Vidal frowned. He hated anything interrupting his nightly ritual. “Come in!” he called, keeping his attention on the shiny workings of the watch. Me?” The Faun was surprised by Cintolo’s request. But in the old man’s face he saw passion, patience, and the most valuable virtue of all in desperate times: hope. So he dismissed all other duties—of which the Faun had many—to sit patiently for the sculptor.I never watched the film because I thought it would be too scary/violent for me, though I imagined I would love the fairy tale aspects of it. So I was very excited to read this adaptation by one of my favourite authors! I’m happy to read your review and know that the book stands on its own, being an accurate yet expanded version of the film’s story. Mercedes!” he called out to a woman who was helping the soldiers unload the cars. “Get their luggage!” Mercedes tells the cook that the coffee is burnt and that they need to get more meat in preparation for the arrival of the doctor's wife and the mayor's wife. Carmen calls Ofelia over and shows her a green dress that she has had made for her in preparation of the dinner party that night. Ofelia goes off to take a bath, but pulls the book that the Faun gave her out from a secret hiding spot. When she opens it, it fills with drawings and texts, a magical map. The magical sequences in the film are often awe-inspiring, but have an unsettling and uncanny quality to them as well. For instance, when Ofelia must go into the tree to retrieve the golden key from the toad's belly, she must climb through mud which is teeming with beetles and insects. Furthermore, when she feeds the magic stones to the toad, its stomach erupts from its mouth in a terrifying and viscerally unsettling display. The fairy tale elements of Pan's Labyrinthhave a rather disturbing quality; they are not the charming images of Walt Disney, but the eruptive and unsettling images of more classical mythology and fables. Ofelia takes the book into the forest, reading it to herself. There is a story about a dying fig tree, which she finds in the forest. The tree is dying because a monstrous toad has settled near its roots and will not let it thrive and grow. The book instructs Ofelia to feed magic stones to the toad and procure a golden key from its belly. After removing her dress, Ofelia ventures inside the trunk of the tree in search of the toad, crawling through the mud.

Fool. Vidal walked toward the door, the smoke of his cigarette following him through the sparsely lit room. Vidal didn’t like lights. He liked to see his own darkness. He was almost at the door when Ferreira once again raised his annoyingly gentle voice. Then one day Moanna was gone. And Cintolo remembered how often she’d asked him about the sun and the moon and whether he knew what the trees, whose roots laced the ceiling of her bedroom, looked like above the ground.

I’d like to thank Katherine Tegen Books for providing a copy via Edelweiss+ in exchange for review consideration. The Faun says this to Ofelia when she wanders into the labyrinth one night. He introduces himself to her as immortal and ancient, and informs her that she will never be able to understand or pronounce his name, as she is a mortal. Ofelia bent down and closed her fingers around the stone. Time had covered it in moss, but when Ofelia brushed it off, she saw it was flat and smooth and that someone had carved an eye on it. It was the year 1944 and the girl sitting in one of the cars, next to her pregnant mother, didn’t understand what the trees whispered. Her name was Ofelia and she knew everything about the pain of loss, although she was only thirteen years old. Her father had died just a year ago and Ofelia missed him so terribly that at times her heart felt like an empty box with nothing but the echo of her pain in it. She often wondered whether her mother felt the same, but she couldn’t find the answer in her pale face. Ofelia felt reluctant to share her stories with him, but finally she sat up. Under the white sheets her mother’s body looked like a mountain covered in snow, her brother sleeping in its deepest cave. Ofelia put her head on the bump in the blanket, caressing it where her brother was moving, deep under her mother’s skin.

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