film studies

Pans Labyrinth: pale man scene Pans Labyrinth is a Spanish movie set in 1944 5 years after the Spanish civil war, the movie follows a young girl who meets a faun in the forest and is told she is a princess from an underground kingdom and she must undergo 3 tasks to return to the kingdom. One of these tasks is to steal a golden dagger from the pale mans banquet and escape before the hourglass is complete. scene    the scene begins with Ofelia opening the book with the tasks provided by the faun, we are given an over the shoulder shot of the book as the pale man is shown, in the position of a womb this could be foreshadowing the death of Carman and the third trial where the blood of the innocent must be given for the gates of the other world to be open, this also shows the pale man towering over a young girl this accomplishes the same as a high camera angle, showing weakness and venerability in the victim. After this the camera follows Ofelia's hand as it draws the chalk do