Week 6-Pan's Labyrinth

1/Summarize the film while also synthesizing content you learned in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Magic Realism, and any of the eras reported in the previous week by you or your classmates.
Pan's Labyrinth is a film directed by Mexican film maker Guillermo del Toro
The story is set in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil war and tells the strange story of a young girl believed to be a princess presiding over an underground kingdom. Her recently remarried mother is pregnant and will soon bear a child for her husband Captain Vidal, who to say the least is a rather slimy character. Ofelia finds herself lonely and spends most of her time entertaining herself, usually caught up in her own imaginative play. The soon to birth mother and family relocate to the the country. Ofelia's mother lies in bed weakened by her pregnancy, while the father continues in his military escapades. General Franco has ordered that a nearby group of fighters be put down. This provides the character Ofelia time to explore her new surroundings. She soon wonders into a stone labyrinth that is inhabited and presided over by a mythical faun named Pan(There is also the roses on top of the mountain part). Pan goes to great lengths to convince Ofelia that she is the lost princess of legend and tasks her with three dangerous tasks that must be completed to return home to her father that she loves dearly. The third task requires the blood of an innocent be spilt, (her soon to be born brothers), but she refuses and in the end it is her blood that is spilt when she is shot by the step father. In all honesty I could barley watch this movie and I am disappointed that it was the only one I got a hold of quickly. The story is over all gruesome and hard to follow. The historical aspects are very biased and maybe not for people who do not view things in the same way the director does. To watch for class, OK I guess but I couldn't really get through the whole thing. The film is very much about oppression be it political or social. Sorry about the summery becoming a personal review, but I really disliked this film on a level I have not know since seeing Dude Wheres My Car.