Pan's Labyrinth Themes

Choices are hard. It's a wide world full of infinite possibilities out there: we're often paralyzed when we have to do something as simple as choose between getting a plain cone or getting a waffle...

Immortality might seem like a strange theme for a movie like Pan's Labyrinth, in which every main character except for Mercedes dies…but eternal life can come in a lot of shapes and sizes. Let's...

Some rules are meant to be broken. Or, in Ofelia's case, all rules. While the human world is full of the order imposed by a authoritarian regime, the supernatural world of Pan's Labyrinth also has...

Del Toro has said that he thinks of Pan's Labyrinth as a spiritual predecessor to his earlier film, The Devil's Backbone. And that's probably true: both are adventures into female adulthood.Pan's L...