Why? Part three!

I think that Guillermo del Toro chose to do a plot like this is because maybe he had an evil step parent or had a dream as a kid and loved fairy tales? In an article I read, he states "I wanted 'Pan's Labyrinth' to speak to the true origin of fairy tales, which were conceived to be parables told by the fire — mostly by a traveling tailor or cobbler — to the entire household," del Toro says. "They needed to enrapture adults as well as children, and more often than not, they contained very brutal situations: incest, cannibalism, patricide, infanticide, war, pestilence. They were very brutal, but out of that brutality and darkness, the magic glows deeper. Over the years, people sanitized them." I also read that he has done every type of violence imaginable in my other films, but the violence in 'Pan's Labyrinth' is different," del Toro says. "It's calculated to serve a function. It's not gleeful or comedic violence: It's off-putting and incredibly stomach-churning. If we were being voyeuristic, each killing would be quote-unquote 'cooler' than the last. But as Vidal kills more people, the murders become more and more matter-of-fact."

This movie over all was very well put together, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did.