How Guillermo del Toro Deals With Trauma
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FULL SPOILERS FOR THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE AND PAN'S LABYRINTH
In this video essay we'll examine Guillermo Del Toro's masterpieces 'The Devil's Backbone' (2001) and 'Pan's Labyrinth' (2005). Del Toro is planning to make these films into a trilogy about engaging with the repressed trauma that is the Spanish Civil War. I will point out how he uses the fantastical to say something profound about the historical, and how archetypal symbolism can bring knowledge of the human experience into our own lives...
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LITERATURE USED:
- Spanish History in the Fairy Country: Dealing with Social
Trauma in Pan’s Labyrinth. Álvaro Fernández. 2013.
- 2017 Maps of Meaning 9: Patterns of Symbolic Representation. Prof. Jordan Peterson Lecture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXZSeiAl4PI&t=3823s)
- With Spain in our Hearts: The Political Fantastic of Guillermo Del Toro’s Laberinto del fauno (2006) and El espinazo del diablo (2001)
Christopher Hartney
- "Nobody's Children": Gothic Representation and Traumatic History in "The Devil'sBackbone". Ellen Brinks. 2004
- Ghosts of the Past and Present: Hauntology and the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo delToro's "The Devil's Backbone". Anne E. Hardcastle. 2005.
- https://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-esoteric-interpretation-of-pans-labyrinth/
FILMS USED:
- The Devil's Backbone (2001)
- Pan's Labyrinth (2005)
- The Spanish Earth (1937), dir. Joris Ivens.
- Prelude to War (1942), dirs. Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak
MUSIC USED:
- Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack
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FULL SPOILERS FOR THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE AND PAN’S LABYRINTH
In this video essay we’ll examine Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpieces ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ (2001) and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ (2005). Del Toro is planning to make these films into a trilogy about engaging with the repressed trauma that is the Spanish Civil War. I will point out how he uses the fantastical to say something profound about the historical, and how archetypal symbolism can bring knowledge of the human experience into our own lives…
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LITERATURE USED:
– Spanish History in the Fairy Country: Dealing with Social
Trauma in Pan’s Labyrinth. Álvaro Fernández. 2013.
– 2017 Maps of Meaning 9: Patterns of Symbolic Representation. Prof. Jordan Peterson Lecture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXZSeiAl4PI&t=3823s)
– With Spain in our Hearts: The Political Fantastic of Guillermo Del Toro’s Laberinto del fauno (2006) and El espinazo del diablo (2001)
Christopher Hartney
– “Nobody’s Children”: Gothic Representation and Traumatic History in “The Devil’sBackbone”. Ellen Brinks. 2004
– Ghosts of the Past and Present: Hauntology and the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo delToro’s “The Devil’s Backbone”. Anne E. Hardcastle. 2005.
– https://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-esoteric-interpretation-of-pans-labyrinth/
FILMS USED:
– The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
– Pan’s Labyrinth (2005)
– The Spanish Earth (1937), dir. Joris Ivens.
– Prelude to War (1942), dirs. Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak
MUSIC USED:
– Pan’s Labyrinth Soundtrack
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
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Fantastic video
This has got to be the best example of a video essay to date! Fantastic analysis and comparison, as always 🙂
Excellent, excellent, excellent video
This was a Great Historical, & Cenimatic analysis.
You’ll call me stupid but I didn’t even know Spain had a civil war
Very good video.
Loved this. Sharing it with my composition class at A&M as an example of extraordinary research and a lovely conclusion.
Damn this was good, I was in the works for making an analysis of the orphanage and your editing gave me a lot of ideas! Keep up the good work 🙂
wow, this is a great one 🙂
Wow I am really impressed with this video. Good job! Keep it up i am already looking forward to the next one
Beautiful analysis.
I thought he was Mexican, why's he obsessed with spain (Spanish wars)? is he of Spanish descent?
Incredible video, thank you.
sweet video, I hope you can do more like this.
I truly respect this you put so much detail into breaking down beauty to the math or sceince of the art thus highlighting the art itself. I want to begin to do this with music more specificly rap and make art with this detail u inspire me
Finally… someone has managed to analyze Pan's Labyrinth. I understood and managed to grasp the ending on my own but not much else. I knew there was more there!
Loved this analysis, I got emotional at the end. We reflect our stories and lessons through movies to show the effects and caution. Need to remember more
i love this video
it's melancholy but somewhat good
Death Stranding
It's like with Daniel Krauss's/Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters(The 2015 book not the DreamWorks Netflix cartoon) delved into the trauma of losing your loved ones and struggling with the idea that they're still there and showing the harsh reality of the history of war albeit in a mythical sense. I could also say the Pale Man is highly similar to Gunmar the Black as a gluttonous demonic being that devours children.
Despite TrollHunters looking like a children's fantasy book it's actually incredibly gruesome and freaky like Pan's Labyrinth is. Too bad DreamWorks just had to change and Water it down to the point that the protagonist Jim Sturges isn't even himself anymore! With is both sad and unbelievable since Guilmello Del Toro himself was heavily involved in the pilot!
I have to deal with that trauma now!
Great analysis and explanation. Thank you.
This is an incredible video, and you blew me away when you referenced doctor Peterson, it elevated the analysis to an entirely new level
As a student of Dr. Peterson, and after having watched countless hours of his lectures, I was very pleased to find reference to him. You connected his thesis on archetypes to Del Toro's fantastical worlds very well. Where Peterson employs the use of mythos to draw out these overarching human stories from the top down, Del Toro crafts the stories from the bottom up.
In the end, the most compelling mythology is that which tells us something about the human condition. It's a story of overcoming the tyrannical father or the threatening mother, and in the end, making the biggest sacrifice for your values. As the children identify what values they should follow, their actions represent their virtues which get them there. As a channel about storytelling, I should have expected no less from you
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Great work as always Thomas! I feel we as a culture are slowly (or possibly, rapidly) remembering the lessons of our ancestors. I think Dr. Peterson has a lot to do with that. Very few explain the symbolism and focus more on what ethnicity or world view the characters have, instead of the world that's depicted.
Thank you again for the videos!
Jordan Peterson!!! Can't go wrong referencing his videos.