Month: October 2021

When learning about a film, understanding the context that film the film was made in is crucial in understanding why certain things are the way that they are. There are several contexts that can go behind a films production, some of these include: the time it was made, the culture surrounding the director, the religion of the director & the artistic vision of the director.

This also applies to Pan’s Labyrinth which is a film in the fantasy and war genres. It was made in 2006 by Guillermo Del Toro, who’s a Mexican director that’s also a catholic. These elements (such as time, culture, religion, etc) play into why Pan’s Labyrinth is the way it is. Certain aspects of the film would’ve been extremely different if it was directed by someone else, for example, Del Toro refused the larger budgets from larger studios in order to keep creative control of the film and have it be as grusome as it is.