Pan's Labyrinth is a film that incorporates the myth of fairy tales to tell a story of a young girl in a very dark manner. Ofelia, the main character, believes in magic and thus a fairy world. The film takes place in Spain, five years after the Spanish Civil War, and the pregnant mother of the main character is slowly dying. The father of Ofelia is a horrible person himself. Ofelia is faced with the intertwining of the real world with a mythical world centered on an overgrown abandoned labyrinth. Many elements of fairy tales are found in this film including the completion of tasks with the help of a guide, which in this case would be the faun. Since this is a darker film itself, I have chosen to compare this fairy tale with Grimm's "Cinderella".
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