Pan's Labyrinth (BFI Film Classics)

For Pan’s myriad influences reinforce the film’s rejection of a unique version of truth, an imposed master-narrative incarnated by Vidal, and as such, any reductive or ‘final’ reading of the film is rendered obsolete – in a way, fascist.

story’. The movie is about two or three things; disobedience, choice and memory.

The thing is, in my own experience, every week, every day, I find that when you are obeying, I generally think you are doing the wrong thing. If you find there are two options, one difficult and one easy, 99 per cent of the time the hard choice is the good choice in my opinion.

‘the eyes are the beginning of it all’3

‘the permeability of the membrane between reality and fantasy’.

‘Pan is a game of interpretation where the reward for repeated viewings is not the addition, but the multiplication of meanings.’30

saying: ‘To obey – just like that – for obedience’s sake … without questioning … . That’s something only people like you do.’

a goat with horns, but also the female fallopian tubes and ovaries.

GdT has acknowledged many times that the philosophy that has had the most influence on his work is the Jungian, almost psycho-magical conception of the world. I believe we see the world, and create the world we live in, in