FANTASY IN TIMES OF WAR: A STUDY ON THE POWER RELATIONS PRESENT IN THE MOVIE "FAUN'S LABIRINTH"

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929332330034

• Palavras-chave: Speech analysis; Power relations; Pan's Labyrinth.

• Keywords: Speech analysis; Power relations; Pan's Labyrinth.

• Abstract:

  In the year 1944, in Spain, General Fanco was the president. And his government was marked by the persecution of opponents of the anarchist movement. Through revisiting this historical fact, the cinematographic work targeted by this study, Labyrinth of the Pan, (2006) develops concomitantly with the narrative of a princess named Ofélia, a 10-year-old girl who meets a Faun, the humblest of her relatives. her servants, and the Labyrinth, which is a portal to the kingdom to which this princess belongs. In view of this, following Michel Foucault's archegenealogical method, we seek to analyze the power relations manifest in this work, which we believe are fundamental to understanding the conditions of production, the dictatorial government, which served as a possibility of discursive emergence for the development of children's fantasy of the character Ofélia, and the exercise of power as a way of acting on the actions of others. So far, the study has pointed out that the presence of a child in this film has allowed the creation of a magical world in which the child's perspective is organized through reference to the totalitarian regime, interrelating with the mythical world of fantasy that, in the film mentioned above, works as a form of resistance, as fantasy frees Ofélia from the oppressive reality of Captain Vidal's house and the war scenario installed in it.