Pan's Labyrinth

This film has blended reality with mythic themes by having Ofelia's fantasy world and the real world. No one else in the film sees the faun or the fairies but Ofelia. I feel the fairy tale books that the viewer sees Ofelia with in the beginning of the movie help to fuel her belief in the fantasy world. I think that the fantasy world was also fueled by the death of her mother and the horrible world she has to live in. I think it acts as an escape for her from the world and the captain. The movie is like a fairy tale in the way the number three shows up. Ofelia has three tasks to perform. Within those tasks the number three is seen (three stones in the toad's belly, three choices to use the key, and three fairies trying to help Ofelia with the eye hand creature). There are many different ways in which this movie in which this movie blends reality with myth.