Captain Vidal Theme

The setting takes place in a rural area in north spain in 1944 after the civil war or the fantasy settings takes place in an underground kingdom in a fig tree. The plot is that a young girl named Ofelia and her ailing mother have to go to her moms new husband's house who happens to be a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. Ofelias mother is kind, mild, beautiful and gentle. Ofelia's father a tailor died and her mother is left alone to take care of her in an uncertain city so she marries the unaffectionate nearly inhuman caption vidal. Ofelias mother becomes very ill carrying his child. Mercedes the housemaid is secretly a rebel spy she is full of strength, compassion and unshakeable resolve. Ofelia herself is
The conflict is person vs person and person vs task which is ofelia vs captain vidal and captain vidal vs mercedes and ofelia vs the three tasks she is assigned in order to become a princess again. The primary themes are Imagination because imagination is a fundamental part of human nature that has become lost and it is necessary for surviving the real world and for discovering the fantasy realm and the challenges of everyday life require imagination as a way to escape reality. What makes this horror is that it’s gory it has bloody scenes and it contains disturbing creatures it’s dark and spooky and the evil stepfather the child eating monster the dark color schemes that bring out the feelings of gloom. The similarities between the girl who loved tom gordon and pans labyrinth Are that they're both female characters that get lost and that lost their fathers they both live in a dangerous situations and ofelia actually dies from the dangerous situation she is in but trisha made out of her dangerous situation and was waiting for her mom and brother to find her. Trisha from the girl who loved tom gordon is nine years old and ofelia from pan's labyrinth is eleven years old. They both had evil in them because in the girl who loved tom gordon a guy falsely told the cops that trisha was kidnapped when she was just lost in the woods and in pans labyrinth ofelia’s step dad captain vidal not only didn’t care about ofelia or her mother but he also killed people because they were rebels. Captain vidal is cruel,tyrannical and bloodthirsty so he kills rebels and innocent people. I chose this book because it had a weird name and i don’t ever watch horror movies because i’m not a fan of horror movies so their for this movie had a strange name even though it was in spanish it had english subtitles at the bottom so i could watch it still knowing what they said.