Pan's Labyrinth: Analysis of Performance
Arrival to the camp
- When Carmen steps out the car, Vidal stands with an upright posture establishing his power to the audience and gives us an insight into who holds the dominance in the relationship between the two characters. It provides us with some historical/social context at the time which is that men overruled women at the time, women were inevitably dependent on their husband.
-Vidal's facial expression is one of intimidation and threat. He maintains a straight face and frowns while staring at his clock before Carmen arrives, highlighting his impatience and does not like it when things don't go to plan. Then when she finally does arrive, it is not until he touches her stomach to feel the baby that we see a rare smile come out. But we can see through this smile that he maintains a slight evil threat.
The Hunter's scene
-After one of the hunter's doubts Vidal's judgement, Vidal takes revenge by stabbing him in the eye with a bottle. He maintains a straight face while committing this disastrous act stressing his petrifying and animalistic side. His posture throughout this scene is completely upright, which in turn shows to the hunters and the audience who holds the power in the scene. This gives the audience some sort of perspective of the ideology of fascism at the time and how brutal they were to anyone they saw as threat/opposition. Moreover, how little they tolerated to anything as well.
- When Carmen steps out the car, Vidal stands with an upright posture establishing his power to the audience and gives us an insight into who holds the dominance in the relationship between the two characters. It provides us with some historical/social context at the time which is that men overruled women at the time, women were inevitably dependent on their husband.
-Vidal's facial expression is one of intimidation and threat. He maintains a straight face and frowns while staring at his clock before Carmen arrives, highlighting his impatience and does not like it when things don't go to plan. Then when she finally does arrive, it is not until he touches her stomach to feel the baby that we see a rare smile come out. But we can see through this smile that he maintains a slight evil threat.
The Hunter's scene
-After one of the hunter's doubts Vidal's judgement, Vidal takes revenge by stabbing him in the eye with a bottle. He maintains a straight face while committing this disastrous act stressing his petrifying and animalistic side. His posture throughout this scene is completely upright, which in turn shows to the hunters and the audience who holds the power in the scene. This gives the audience some sort of perspective of the ideology of fascism at the time and how brutal they were to anyone they saw as threat/opposition. Moreover, how little they tolerated to anything as well.
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