Pans Labyrinth's opening scene shows the cyclical framework associated with the City of God thus linking both Post-civil war Spain's practical random violent and fascist truth in 1944 with the underworld where laws and consequences make sense Pans Labyrinth immediately begs the questions from the beginning inside the audience-is the underworld real? I don't personally think that way. I think it can be argued both ways easily, but we are evident to me by film type in which world we really live in. Mercedes Melody, which we also hear in the closing sequence, opens the scene. The contextual subtitles not only create the harsh reality in which our heroine lives, but also the one from which she desperately wants to escape. Then a close-up that eventually opens into an intense close-up in Ofelia's eye follows to convey that we are really in her mind, perhaps to the people who assume that the underworld is a coping mechanism for Ophelia The cinematography has a very dim and co...