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orchiun · 3 months ago

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Hey, I thought I was feeling like drawing recently because I felt this weird hype suddenly, but when I was sketching I noticed that I was literally drawing a character from a movie that I don't even like, I thought so. And that's so cool, but I couldn't keep up with the drawing because I was feeling the NEEEEED to put everything I was talking to myself alone somewhere. So, here we are!

If there's something I know I love so much, so so much that even makes me wanna cry just by talking or thinking about it, is fairytales! Not every kind of fairytale, it's the "girl in another reality" kind of fairytale. Like Alice, or Coraline, and... This movie.

SPOILERS ALERT!

You see, I always think "OH MY GOD, WHAT IF THAT WAS ME???" And I start imagining scenarios with me instead of the protagonist in those realities and it's so cool, like, I would totally not leave the wonderland if I was Alice. And I would probably lose to Beldam in the other world from Coraline, but just because I would try to get anything I could from her first, and I think I'm smart enough to understand really fast what was going on, so I would simply never go back. But then, it would be a totally different movie, since there's a lot of theories that say that Coraline never left the other world, and I need to kill beldam otherwise she would just make another victim, or not! Now that I stopped to think about it, she would need to eat me to stay alive, but if I don't let her do it, then she will die. Ok, I would totally beat beldam, where's my prize now for being the most smart and cool girl in the world?

And I mean, the Wonderland is literally wonderful. I would never leave there, I love Cheshire, and I love the mad Hatter, that stupid anxious white rabbit, the redhead queen... It's really amazing, It's so cool, a lot of adventures and crazy people and animals, and tea! It's so cool. I hope one day I find a white rabbit telling me that I'm late too, I would freak out first probably but it would be really nice afterwards, I would leave everything and everyone behind to live this, and I would never NEVER NEVER EVER leave the wonderland.

But... There's this fucking movie. I can't tell if I really like it or not, it's literally what I enjoy, but... Uhh... Let me explain.

I watched Coraline when I was a baby, almost. And then, a little grown up, I watched Alice, and then, now that I'm more older, I watched Pan's Labyrinth.

It looks like I've been watching the same thing but it has been growing up with me, so when I watched Pan's Labyrinth, I wasn't expecting THAT. The movie shows everything I like, but, realistically? And that made me freak out, a lot.

I cried, I panicked, I was scared, I was thinking so much that my head was literally hurting sooo bad, I needed that sweet little fairytale with cute little fairies, BUT NOT THE REAL THING LIKE IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, IN REAL LIFE. That was WEIRD and it made me SO AFRAID OF WATCHING THE WHOLE THING.

You see, I also enjoy those movies where a girl is brave and she goes exploring everything and the other world, like in Peter Pan! I love it. But this girl in the movie..... She made me angry, she was TOOOO curious, and she was DUMB and it made so MAD.

Ok, but first things first.

I love mystical creatures, especially fairies. I watched spiderwick a hundred times and I read the full collection of books, I was OBSESSED with the anatomy and biology behind fairies, I was STUDYING mystical creatures(I still do it sometimes, so cool.) And I need to tell you, nothing could make me ready to see THIS MOTHERFUCKER

THE WAY IT WAS A FUCKING BUG, IT WAS A FUCKING MOTH BEFORE IT TURNED INTO THIS LITTLE FUCKER, ITS SO UGLY, AND THE TRANSFORMATION, THE METAMORPHOSIS, THE... WHATEVER IT'S CALLED, IT WAS SO GRAPHICALLY TERRIBLE, I WAS STARING AT MY TELEVISION LIKE "😟" AND THE MOVIE TRIED SO BAD TO MAKE ME LIKE THEM....

And ok it worked, I got used to them, but imagine the fucking skin of those little motherfuckers, it makes me wanna vomit just by imagining it.

But ok, we now have a fairy, you can get used to it as well. It's not THAT bad right? It's just a little unsettling because its uhh realistic?

And you know, this movie is a poetic fantasy set in post–Civil War Spain, around 1944.

The story follows Ofelia, the stupid, dumb, curious and imaginative 10 year old girl who I told you about. She moves with her pregnant mother to a military outpost, where her new stepfather, the sadistic Captain Vidal, is hunting down anti-Franco rebels hiding in the nearby woods, blah blah kill the communists, fascist people torturing more people, whoaah!

AND THEN, SUDDENLY... SHE MEETS THIS THING.

YOU SEE THIS LIKE I DO?

I mean, it's LITERALLY what I have been reading and studying about just for fun MY WHOLE LIFE, but seeing it so realistically made me so scared, I didn't trusted him, I still don't, I don't know. I haven't seen any theories about this fucking movie but I DON'T. TRUST. FAUN.

Ofelia, the dumb girl... Discovers an ancient labyrinth and meets a mysterious, weird and cool faerie faun, who tells her she is really a lost princess of an underground realm. To reclaim her place as royalty, she must complete three magical and dangerous tasks. Tell me now, would you fucking believe his words?

You need to watch this movie, the way he starts to "live" is so weird, I can't fucking believe it. It made me so scared and anxious, and the girl was like "oh ok" LIKE GIRL????? LOOK AT THE FUCKING CREATURE THAT'S TALKING TO YOU.

According to the faun (and the myth he tells her), Ofelia is actually the reincarnation of Princess Moanna, the daughter of a king who ruled a vast, underground magical kingdom. This realm isn’t just some sparkly fairyland because it’s ancient, sacred and timeless, bathed in gold and moonlight, a place where no pain, no lies, and no death exist. It’s a place of truth and eternity, that shit is also scary to me and I can't explain you why.

But, plot twist, Princess Moanna was curious(oh really?) about the world above. She heard stories about humans and wanted to see the sun, the sky, the rain. So she escaped to the surface world, and once there, the sun’s brightness erased her memory. She became mortal, and eventually, she died, I think it was of hunger, forgotten in the human world.

Yet her father, the king, never gave up. He built labyrinths all over the world in hopes that she’d one day find her way back, if she ever remembered who she was. That’s the labyrinth in the story! It's not just stone and moss, it’s a gateway between worlds, between the forgotten soul of a divine child and the home that waits for her return.

Ofelia’s tasks serve as a way to prove her essence: her courage, her selflessness, her innocence. The underground realm isn’t something she earns by power, it’s something she reclaims by purity of spirit. AND SHE FAILED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, AND THAT MADE ME SO FUCKING MAD. But I understood why in the end, so it's ok.

TASK 1: The Giant Toad Under the Fig Tree

Objective: Retrieve a golden key from the belly of a monstrous toad that’s rotting a fig tree from the inside out(so fucking gross I could never do this shit like she did, I would think of other way, but I would totally not get fucking dirty and be putting my pretty hands on a gross giant toad who burps.)

What she was supposed to do: Use cunning, courage, and determination to outsmart the toad, get the key, and escape clean, like I would.

What actually happened:

She gets down there, all dolled up in her green fairytale dress (which her mom just gave her and told her not to mess up, that little brat)

She talks to the toad. The thing is slimy, gross, and pure nightmare fuel, it's DISGUSTING.

She kinda does well! Tricks it into eating the stones the faun gave her and BOOM, toad pukes, she gets the key.

But... the dress? DESTROYED. She's COVERED in mud and guts. Her mom’s furious. Her stepdad's ice-cold. She returns home successful in the task, but she’s starting to taste how ugly the real world can be even when you do "the right thing".

Faun’s reaction: Eh, not thrilled, not mad. Neutral. “Job done, child.” But fuck no that thing ain't saying "ok you did great" to me, I WOULD BE SO SMART AND I WOULD GET HOME CLEAN, AND I DESERVE MUCH MORE THAN A "you did great" OK?

TASK 2: The Pale Man (aka "Don’t. Eat. The. Food.")

Objective: Enter the lair of the Pale Man (that skinwalker of a creature with eyeballs in his hands, you probably have seen him somewhere), use the golden key to retrieve a dagger, and GTFO. DO NOT eat anything from the banquet.

What she was supposed to do:

Stay focused.

Follow rules.

Get the dagger.

Don’t be tempted.

Easy, right?

What actually happened:

She goes in like a boss, fairies flitting around, everything going okay. She sees that table of magical food and thinks, "Just one grape." Just one.

One grape = three fairies DEAD.

The Pale Man wakes, unleashes hell, and nearly eats her alive, BECAUSE SHE WAS GREEDY, IT DIDN'T EVEN LOOKED GOOD, WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT, OH MY FUCKING GOD SHE'S SO DUMB.

Faun’s reaction:

ABSOLUTE RAGE.

He's like, “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? THAT CREATURE EATS CHILDREN AND YOU GRABBED A GRAPE YOU LITTLE BITCH??”

He’s furious. He tells her flat-out:

“You failed me. You can never return to the realm. You are unworthy.” (he's such a diva by saying this)

And she’s devastated. You can feel it. She didn’t just break a rule, she broke trust. This was about obedience and resisting temptation, and she flopped. Hard.

And I need to say here, I do not like Ofelia, or the Faun. I was so afraid of his reactions, and got anxious by his words, it was so fucking weird and he's already ugly, imagine that but angry!? Almost made me wet my pants.

TASK 3: The Innocent Blood

Objective (as given): Take her baby brother to the labyrinth and use the magical dagger to spill innocent blood, a sacrifice to open the gate.

What she was supposed to do (according to the faun):

Give the dagger to the faun.

Let him kill the baby.

Boom, gate opens, welcome back Princess Moanna.

But what does Ofelia do?

SHE SAYS NO.

She looks at that squirmy little newborn and says, “Absolutely not. Kill me instead if you have to.”

Faun’s reaction:

Again, RAGE.

“You would choose a mortal over your eternal soul?”

“Yes,” she basically says. “He’s innocent. I won’t let you touch him.”

And here’s the kicker:

THAT was the real test.

That was the final moment of proof, was she still a pure soul? Still worthy of her throne? Would she spill innocent blood for power or choose mercy over destiny?

She chose mercy.

She failed every surface task, but she passed the only one that mattered: sacrifice without gain.

So yeah, she technically failed the first two tasks and defied the third.

But in that rebellion—in choosing compassion, disobedience, and moral clarity over blind obedience—she proved herself worthy of the kingdom.

In the end? She dies.

Shot by Vidal, her stepfather. Bleeding out in the labyrinth. Her blood(innocent blood) is spilled, but not by her choice. That, ironically, completes the ritual.

She wakes up in the golden realm, whole again. Crowned. Honored. Home.

And the faun? Standing beside the king and queen, smiling. Because that was the real test all along.

Do I believe him now? NO. HE STILL UGLY, EVERYONE IS UGLY, I DON'T LIKE IT. IT'S NOT PRETTY. I DON'T LIKE IT!!

And the way he speaks makes me so furious, HE'S THE ONE UNTRUSTWORTHY.

And Im talking about all of this because I am with this movie stuck in my head and I can't believe it ended the way it ended. Please if you have the chance, watch it, I hope you can understand my perspective. I just talked about the fantasy part of it but there's so much more, the reality in this movie is so gut wrenching, the only character I liked in this movie was being fucking tortured and I got so mad and cried because of it, I tried to skip all the scenes where they're were torturing him, but I couldn't do it on time and saw the most angry scene ever, but is ok, they got what they deserved in the end😿

I think is ironic how I'm always daydreaming about fantasy worlds and different realities, hoping one day it could happen to me, but when I watched this movie it was so... Weird and scary to me, it mixed up the real and the fairytale in a way I felt disturbed, I missed my colored fairytales, with sparkles and cute things, and silly creatures. Even if in the end I got it, it's just not the same. I hate it but I think I love it at the same time, I just don't want to accept it.

And to be honest, I think I would react like Ofelia if I had her age in that situation, so I don't blame her for being that dumb. But fuck that weird ass faun, he must die or get pretty, there's no other way I can like him. He's weird.

I'm getting sleepy right now, but I truly hope I don't forget this feeling so I can come here later and talk more about this movie and some other stuff.

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