Pan's Labyrinth (BFI Film Classics)

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

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.

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 permeability of the membrane between reality and fantasy’.

GdT has stated many times that Pan, far from being the story of a girl dying, is instead the story of a girl who gives birth to herself as she wants to be.

‘Fascism is above all a form of perversion of innocence, and thus of childhood. For me, Fascism represents in some ways the death of the soul.’87

‘the eyes are the beginning of it all’3

a specific sphere of consciousness. You’re attuned to a certain wave, and my wave is in all the movies I make.

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