1. Take note of the visual imagery in the film. How does the Director convey the bleakness of prison life? When, how and to what is this imagery contrasted?

Red finally goes and wins his parole after a long 40 years in prison. He then goes and finds money that Andy had left for him under a rock in a field and sets off to the sunny coast of Mexico, where he finds his old friend, Andy, starting a business for boat-renting.

2. What is the significance of Andy asking the prisoner’s name – the ‘New Fish” beaten by the guards?

Though other prisoners consider Andy “a really cold fish,” Red sees something in Andy, and likes him from the start. Red believes Andy intends to use the hammer to engineer his escape in the future but when the tool arrives and he sees how small it is, Red puts aside the thought that Andy could ever use it to dig his way out of prison.

1. What is this movie personally telling or teaching you? What is the film’s ending trying to personally convey to you?

Symbolism: “Pan's Labyrinth”  the subject explored  is “Good vs. Evil vs. Innocence.” The sobering message of the film the conclusion drawn  is that in a war torn between good and evil, there is not place for innocence.

2. Watches and time: What is the symbolism and backstory to Captain Vidal’s watch? Why is it an important plot device?

The watch (Symbol) In this moment, the watch represents the fact that Vidal is exacting and meticulous in his sense of time and order. It is an extension of his fascist political ideals, his fanatical insistence that everything conform to his predetermined plan.

Is this a typical Hollywood movie? Discuss.

due to it has drama and most Hollywood movies have drama it have war a lot of Hollywood movie use war in there films and also fantasy. 

What are the conventions of a Hollywood film? How is this one similar/ different.

to get the story line across on whatever the theme is etc..

Discuss the concepts of “control,” “rebellion,” and “choice,” and see how it links characters?

control over the nazis etc.. rebellion from the nazi the girl is and the choices lead her to bad things etc.. 

In Spanish, faun is fauno; why did the English version insist on making the faun into Pan himself? Who was Pan? Why include the god of forests and nature?

as a more goat like appearance with ram like horns and milky eyes.a character there to be witness and shepherd her (Ofelia) in her rite of passage, but he has no agenda.