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City of God/Pan's Labyrinth - Coggle Diagram
City of God/Pan's Labyrinth
Violence
Violence presented as exciting/thrilling
Opening - fast paced, samba music
Violence presented as hard to watch/shocking
Runts - diegetic crying, naturalistic camera, high angles, vulnerability
Lil ze in binary opposition - low angle, powerful
Status and power
Social commentary for a global audience
Escape
Opening - tracking shot of chicken
Metaphor for escape
Upbeat samba music, thrilling/exciting
Close up, quick shots show Brazilian culture
Morality
Long shot of Lil Ze on his own - binary opposition to previous shot full of crowd
Emptiness of shot - loneliness
Strobe lights - paparazzi - obsession with fame/status
Crouched over Benny - vulnerable
Screams, no music, gunshots - want for control
Intertextual reference to western genre
Fantasy
Del Toro reinforces the importance of childhood imagination
Imagination is lost when older
Intro - word of mouth, oral tradition
Ofelia's story presented as a fairytale
Zoom in to her eyes - seeing the story through her perspective
Over vs. underworld
Change in colour palette, fade, tilt up
Fascism
Banquet scene - cruelness and selfishness of fascism highlighted
Vidal centre-frame, head of table
Long shot of huge banquet in binary opposition to 'one ration card per family'
Catholicism represented negatively
Priest dressed in white - symbol of peace vs cruelness of fascism
Gender
Patriarchal society - women are seen as inferior
Carmen in a wheelchair, physically lower, only referred to as 'my wife'
Belittled and inferior - 'silly stories'
Ofelia dressed in green dress, femininity, traditional gender roles
Mercedes a typical matriarchal character, mother figure to Ofelia
Late motif