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Pan's Labyrinth - Beginning Scene Analysis

The beginning of this film is in a circular narrative, it starts when we see Ofelia dying. After this, we see Ofelia and her mother in the car travelling towards the captain. As they get closer to the captain, Ofelia's mother Carmen becomes more and more sick indicating that the captain, Vidal is a bad character as he is already having an effect on Carmen. When Ofelia stops the car for her mother, she gets out and walks until she finds a rock. She walks a bit further and then finds a statue with a missing eye. The stone that Ofelia finds matches perfectly. When she places the stone in its place, a large bug flies out of the statues mouth. The replacing of the eye represents how Ofelia now has the vision to see the fantasy creatures that she soon meets in the film. No other people have this ability. The concept of eyes throughout the film can be seen as a warning to the audience suggesting that they should look closer into the film at the different elements being shown. In Spain i