Fantasy is supposed to light and airy, filled with elves and
fairies and men in tights. But not Pan’s
Labyrinth. Pan’s is as dark of a tale as we could endure in a fantasy. It takes
place during the Spanish Civil War and is about despotism and hard decisions
and torture and war and a girl forced to protect her unborn brother in the
midst of forces she cannot control. It is also about spirits and belief and
truth. Fantasy is full of symbolism, of truths that are not what they seem, but
rarely does a fantasy make you think so much to force you to look in this
world’s darkness straight in the face.
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