When does it come alive?
The moment Ofelia touches a grape
What could the colour white symbolise?
The absence of colour
What does the pale man represent?
All institutional evil feeding on the helpless
What are on the walls?
Paintings of child eating monsters
Who are the child eating monsters?
Saturn (crompus)
What does the childless pile of shoes resemble?
The holocaust, auchwitz camp
What does the pale man guard?
He guards a banquet he won’t touch, and what no one else can have
What does the pale man at the banquet reflect?
Captain Vidal sitting at the banquet
What does the pale man reflect symbolically?
A reflection of greedy fascist Spain
How is spin greedy?
Hoarded resources and slaughtered those who sought them out
How is the pale man?
Frail and old
What does his faceless and nameless suggest?
He doesn’t belong in society, rejects the norms
What does the skinniness suggest?
He was once fat, and embellished in society
What does the pale man appear like in the underworld?
Appears evil, hostile and selfish
How does the pale man juxtapose from reality?
Reality - Isn’t easy to tell who is evil on appearances alone
What are the effects of the underworld?
Manifestations occur and symbolise institutionalised greed and violence
What does the pale man reveal for the viewers?
Reveals what the political ideology fascism turns people into
What does fascism turn people into, based off the Pale Man?
Deformed, decaying, blood-soaked, always hungry
What are fascists?
A corruption of human nature
What does the pale man’s performance mean?
It only values things it can possess
It needs to have control
How does the pale man try to have control?
By trying to physically grasp ofelia
What is this creature an incarnation of?
A sick decaying institution (previously bloated) that’s reduced to a sad shadow of its former self
What is pale man hungry for?
Violence and pain, not food
What does the food act as?
Bait to entice children
