The movie title is Pan's Labyrinth. The name coincides with the movie Labyrinth. A lot of symbolism in both movies. Small child (brother) in both movies and a girl as a main character. Labyrinth is the prison 3D world we live in...the reality we see, since labyrinth as a path on which one has to learn, to see, to recognize and find a way out - Like in The Labyrinth, the girl is searching for an exit and she meets a worm...she tells him about her search for an exit and the warm is like "WTF??? It is right there behind you". So the girl walks there an sees that the exist is actually there and is all like "omg how could i not see this before". With the "right heart" and the "naivety of the child", the labyrinth will mold for you and the doors will open. There are also other treasures in The Labyrinth, like "presuming too much" and things "not being fair".

As the movie begins her mother is asking her - "why can you not call him father, he wants you to call him like that, when you see him greet him and call him father". Ofelia refuses as he is not her father. Her mother says "it is only a word". Now this is wrong. It is not just a word. One of the pure heart can not say something he or she does not really mean. Her mother asking her to call that sociopath, the representation of a monster, a father...makes that mother an"old mother"....old world mother. Also Ofelia's true mother is the daughter of the Moon, queen of the Underworld and Ofelia has a sign on her shoulder as a proof of that. But as far as 3D world is concerned her biological father was a tailor and her mother is "showing her back to her", as we can also see in the scene with a tub. She also tells her to "stop with the fantasy world and wake up". But in fact it is the mother and the rest of the populous that needs to wake up...they are the ones sleeping.

The "old world mother" later dies...as she denounces her daughter and nature that was helping her and keeping her alive.

The lost daughter Ofelia (Moanna - water from heaven) of the Underworld king, has to show she has not become too much human like (corrupted, animalistic, heartless...), after being immersed into the 3D reality, forgetting who she really is. Just as people forgot who they really are. The Underworld encompasses both Hell and Heaven. Her father will wait for her for as long as it takes, until his last breath or until the Earth "stops spinning".

Pan is the goat man (Aries horns). A human-plant-animal "higher form" of life. As all fauna and flora on Earth represents the ET, the Pan itself (also coming from another "realm") is an ET. It is Pan's Labyrinth as he is a "manager" of it, he is her protector...always in the "background" with her. In Greek mythology pan is also noticeably known for his sexual powers, his pipes, the satire...etc

Ofelia puts the eye into the statue, making it complete her adventure begins. She meets Pan who tells her "you are not the daughter of man" and asks her to do some tasks in order to get back to her realm.





She goes into the "suspiciously" shaped tree...with a bit of an imagination we can see the pussy or to be more puritan - vulva. Even the insides of the tree resembles female genitalia - wet, sticky, dark... So she goes into the natures womb and as she does that she "surrenders" to her as she can not walk in so she has to go on all four and crawl inside. Inside there is big fat egoistic amphibian eating maggots (maggot as another term for a human for those in "charge"). The amphibian is sucking off the life force, feeding and sustaining itself on the life force of the tree and other life...as it is common in the world we live in. She gave him amber stones and the amphibian suffers a "pole shift", it turns inside out and she finds the key.





She uses the chalk to open a "time limited portal" and goes down the passage way into the room with checkered floor and walls "filled" with memories, yet Ofelia does not pay that much attention to it. Intuitively she knows which door to go to and gets the dagger. Despite her being given a clear instructions, she gives into the temptation for the food on the table. She eats some grapes. Grapes was next to pomegranates - the fruit of Hades. Despite the table being full of food she went for the grapes - the first thing Noah planted after the flood. By eating the grapes, she wakes up the Pale Man.

The Pale Man is...not human...not any more. The Pale Man has no heart. He is now abusing children. His eyes are in his palms as he can only see what he can touch. He can only see the "tangible". He cares not for anything else. His world is only what his five senses can provide. He is alone, isolated from life and beauty, feeds by the energy of those that make a mistake and when there is no one there he is "dead"...immovable...lifeless.

He wakes up and during the escape two faeries are eaten alive - it is shown how the heads are bitten off, blood spilling out of it's mouth.

Ofelia later tells Pan what happened and he gets upset. YOU FAILED!!! Pan is hurt and tells her she will not make it to her realm!

"You've failed!! You can not go back. The Moon will be full in three days. Your spirit will roam forever among men (mankind). You will age with them, you will die with them. Your memory will vanish in time, and we will vanish with it. You will never see us again!"

Later he comes back and gives her another chance - with a bit of a twist.





She is told to spill the blood of the baby, her barely born brother, as a final task. She refuses and in the process her own blood is spilled instead and that opens a portal to her realm. Refusing to use the blood of the innocent got her a ticket home.





There is an interesting moment in the movie when Pan says to her at some point: "Be patient....Very soon we will be strolling on the seven concentric courtyards (gardens) of your Palace." Circles - circumpunct with a pillar - phallus in the middle can also be seen. Number 7 can have many different meanings (like seven seals in revelations...etc). The pillar and the lines in the circle form an intersection of the "two planes" seen as a letter L, what some use as a symbol for what is labeled as ascension.

Overall it is a very nice yet also sad and touching movie. It shows the harshness of "our world", but also it's beauty and determination. It also shows that "getting places" takes a lot more than just complaining. It can be painful and hurt, it can be ugly, hard...unpleasant...it takes time and effort. There are no easy ways out of shit.