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First time coming!  Pan's Labyrinth of Temptation!  Chapter 34 The final battle of wits!  Break with Pan!  (Four)

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    Vader quickly pulled out his pistol from under the pillow and put on a piece of clothing.  Just walked towards the door.

    After opening the door a little irritably, the frightened servant screamed: "Captain Vader! The young master has been taken away by Major Ledley! He said he wants you to run to the edge of the mill within three minutes.  In the maze, otherwise"

    After grabbing the hesitating servant in front of him, Vader shouted ferociously: "Otherwise, what will happen?"

    "Otherwise, he said he would kill the young master" The fat servant was also a little flustered at this time. She looked at Vida who looked extremely ugly and said quickly.

    "Fuck! Damn Ledley! Where did I offend him? Are you threatening me with my son's life?" Upon hearing the servant's words, Vader's face instantly turned gloomy.  He threw the servant away and loaded the pistol. The angry Vader shot her casually.  Then he took out his pocket watch and checked the time, and quickly ran towards the maze next to the mill.

    ¡°Vida almost regards his son as more important than his own life!  As he ran towards the mill, he kept thinking about why Ledley did this?  Could it be because of the conflict during the day?  Does this happen when you are angry?  Or is it because he called Ophelia a bastard?  It shouldn¡¯t be!  Just because of Ophelia, is he like this with him?  In terms of relationship, they are in an offensive and defensive alliance!  No, that won't be the case!  Ridley, Ridley, you have to give me an explanation later, otherwise, I won¡¯t make it easy for you!  Vader secretly thought as he ran.

    "Ledley, you must give me a reasonable explanation! Otherwise, I will feel that I have misjudged you!" At the same time, Ophelia said angrily with a look of confusion.

    "Dear Princess Mona, I think what Pan Shen said is clear enough, I don't need to explain!" Chen Shibo looked at Ophelia with a puzzled face and said.

    Ophelia has calmed down by this time. After experiencing so much with Chen Shibo, she still trusts him very much!  Now that she saw Chen Shibo not nervous at all, she gradually felt relieved.  But she still didn't understand what Chen Shibo meant. She frowned and asked, "What does Pan Shen mean?"

    "God Pan's meaning is very simple. In order to open the door of the temple, a drop of blood is needed. Well, a drop of innocent blood is needed. God Pan, do you understand me correctly?" Chen Shibo said while talking to Ophelia.  But he fixed his gaze on Pan Shen.

    Pan Shen¡¯s eyes were fixed on the baby in Chen Shibo¡¯s arms, and he said greedily: ¡°Yes, that¡¯s what I mean. Aha! What else can be better than¡±

    "What could be more suitable than Captain Vader?" Chen Shibo interrupted Pan Shen's words and said directly.

    "Captain Vader?!" Pan Shen and Ophelia were stunned for a moment, staring at Chen Shibo blankly.

    "Yes! Captain Vader!" Chen Shibo repeated simply.

    "But I think" Pan Shen said eagerly.

    But he was still appropriately interrupted by Chen Shibo: "I think only Captain Vader is the most suitable person to sacrifice!"

    Pan Shen, who was interrupted by Chen Shibo one after another, looked extremely ugly. He said gloomily: "Maybe, Knight Ridley, you should give me an explanation! Yes, I really want to know your reasons! Yes, one insists on using  Captain Vader¡¯s reason for sacrifice!¡±

    "Do you still need me to repeat this reason to you? Okay, okay, in fact, you all know it, don't you? Do you have to ask me, a poor, inarticulate person, to explain your reasons in a poorly organized way?"  Chen Shibo stared at Pan Shen with some astonishment and said.

    Neither Pan nor Ophelia spoke.  Chen Shibo smiled.

    "I think babies are innocent at any time! They have just come into this world, they don't understand anything, and they don't know what death is. If we have to deprive it of the hope of survival, then right?  A cruel thing? What do you think? Mr. Pan Shen?" Chen Shibo said with exaggeration.

    Chen Shibo meant what he said.  As a surviving baby, Pan must have had more feelings.  You must know that he is the only surviving son of Saturn, the god of agriculture!  The other sons were eaten by Saturn as soon as they were born!  In such a sharp contrast, Chen Shibo easily aroused Pan Shen's inner resonance!  At the same time, Pan also had an inexplicable hostility towards the baby's father, Captain Vader!

    Pan Shen¡¯s eyes flickered as he stared at the baby in Chen Shibo¡¯s arms.  A kind of sympathy made him feel that the more he looked at the baby, the more he felt that he shared the same enemy.

    "If we really have to sacrifice, the only one is Captain Vader. No matter what, he is the most suitable candidate! Oh my God! Do you want the baby in my arms to be sacrificed? A newborn, ignorant and cluelessKnown baby sacrifice?  In that case, it is better to let his father suffer for him!  After all, he is his father, the father who should resist all sins and dangers for his son!  "The smell of incitement in Chen Shibo's words became even stronger.

    "That's enough! I have to say, Knight Ridley, you really know me very well. Originally, I planned to let Captain Vader sacrifice himself. Haha, yes. Only in this way can he show his great fatherly love!"  Pan Shen danced nervously.

    Chen Shibo smiled confidently.  Regarding jacking the cylinder with Captain Vader.  Chen Shibo had the last idea.  In Ophelia's case, she would not allow her beloved mother and her beloved brother to be a little wronged or hurt.  So, excluding Carmen and the baby, there is only the unlucky Captain Vader!  And the choice of Captain Vader can be said to be the result of the strong hints in the nightmare space!

    First of all, Captain Vader in the original plot ended up dead. This is inevitable.  Vader is tyrannical and kills innocent people indiscriminately.  He kills people almost based on his preference. He can shoot doctor Ferrero just because of different political opinions, and he can also use various tools to torture the prisoners who fall into his hands almost brutally.  In the entire Pan's Labyrinth, Captain Vader is just a small microcosm of what happened during World War II. His brutal behavior silently insinuated the entire brutal right-wing camp!  It is unreasonable for such a cruel person to survive to the end.

    Then, regarding Pan Shen¡¯s insistence on using the blood of newborn babies in the last main mission, it seems a bit forced.  Why does Ophelia have to make such a difficult decision at the end?  It seems that the plot is a bit far-fetched.  However, after careful analysis, Chen Shibo came to the conclusion that this is actually inevitable!

    In the entire plot, there are two main lines of development!  The first main line is the struggle between the mill defenders and the guerrillas!  The second main line is Ophelia's adventure to complete the three main tasks given by Pan!

    Every main mission of Ophelia alludes to the real-life resistance actions of the guerrillas against the right-wing camp!

    The first task is the most obvious, that is, Ophelia needs to retrieve the golden key from the belly of the giant toad.  The withered and decayed fig tree represents the suffering of the Spanish people.  The toad symbolizes the cruel and ugly fascism, entrenched in the roots of the tree, absorbing nutrients and devouring the source of life of the tree.  Ophelia needs courage and wisdom in the face of crisis to retrieve the key from the toad's belly and destroy the monster, just like guerrillas fighting fascists who are more powerful than them.  At the same time, the play also tells two parallel stories, emphasizing this connection, that is, the maid Mercedes stole medicine from the warehouse and sent it to the guerrillas as supplies. Like Ophelia, both  Pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth.

    The second task requires Ophelia to go deep into the cellar of the man-eating monster. The table is filled with delicious and tempting food. These temptations are followed by fatal dangers. Touching one of them will lead to tragic consequences.  A child like Ophelia, who has not seen fruit for a long time, is like a thirsty traveler who is desperate when seeing a clear spring. After all, she cannot resist the temptation of delicious red grapes.  In the end, the elf died trying to protect her, and she almost couldn't return to the real world.  What this story wants to tell is that as a person with secular concepts and normal desires, being attracted by temptation is not an unforgivable thing, as long as you know how to repent after waking up from the dream.  So Pan will give Ophelia a chance to make up for it.

    In this task, the magical piece of chalk also appeared. I think everyone hopes to have such a piece of chalk that can find coolness in the hot sand, find fragrance in the flowers full of thorns, and find it when you are sleepy.  A soft breeding ground.  With those longing for freedom and prayers in the dark night, it rushes towards the home they want to reach.

    The last task is also the most important, which requires Ophelia to sacrifice her brother's blood to the god Pan, in order to open the door to the underground kingdom.  At first Ophelia just thought that it would be enough to bring her brother out. Later, when she knew that she needed to kill her brother in exchange for her happiness, she resolutely gave up the opportunity and stayed in this cruel and cold world.  This is also the spirit of self-sacrifice that the guerrillas showed when facing torture after being captured, as well as the moral bottom line of human nature, that is, human life is above all else and cannot be deprived of it because of any seemingly legitimate desires.  Although persistence may lead to ridicule, humiliation, and even death's scythe.  But after being tortured, the maid still gritted her teeth and refused to reveal the truth, and finally escaped from the camp. When she was cornered by the pursuing soldiers, she was rescued by the guerrillas who caught up.  If she had revealed her true feelings at that time, she might have been killed by the captain's gun.  The whole incident also wants to illustrate that those seemingly unbearable sufferings, as long as you have a fearless and strong heart, will always let the thunder disperse the haze and bring the baptism of heavy rain to the dry land.

    Only at this time did Chen Shibo support the main line of the whole matter.??The hidden intention is completely understood!

    The entire Pan¡¯s Labyrinth is actually the entire process of being a revolutionary!  It¡¯s just that the expression is too vague:

    Looking back at the story progress of the entire film, through the weird magic and bloody reality, we can clearly see an almost complete structure of left-wing revolutionary thought.  At the beginning, the little girl adds eyes to the statue and "opens her eyes to see the world", which seems to imply the beginning of the Enlightenment.  From Rousseau to Marx, their theories on revolution can all find their roots in many assumptions of Enlightenment thought.  Next, following Pan's instructions, Ophelia went to look for a key under a decaying fig tree.  The key leads to the dagger that killed Pan.

    In the Bible, the fig tree is an image with rich meanings.  Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their shame after becoming wise, which links the tree with metaphors of civilization.  Jesus once cursed a fig tree that was full of green leaves but bore no fruit, causing the tree to wither even to the roots.  Many biblical interpreters believe that the fig tree here is an allusion to Israel.  Christ's curse predicted the imminent destruction of Israel and the dispersion of the Israelites throughout the world.  In the film, we might as well think that the dead fig tree represents Spain in 1944, or the entire European civilization.  As a revolutionary, Ophelia must find the key to defeat the enemy and build a new world from the declining European civilization.

    Next, God Pan ordered the captain¡¯s newborn baby to be taken to the maze to complete Ophelia¡¯s ¡°finding of her father¡± and ¡°returning home¡±.  Here, we can easily associate this newborn with the new human society.  The ideal of revolution is to build a new society.  The father - the ruler of the old world, hopes that he will inherit the mantle; the sister (Mercedes) - the rebel of the old world, hopes to bring him to a new world.  Eventually, the sister's allies, the guerrillas, got hold of the child and shot him off from his father.  This is almost a replica of the real history of Spain.  Juan Carlos had been brought up by the dictator Franco since middle school and was designated as his heir.  But he had a completely different political stance from Franco.  When he succeeded to the throne and became king, he began comprehensive democratic reforms, bringing Spain into a new society.  King Juan Carlos was the newborn who broke with his dictator father.

    Pan asked to use a few drops of the baby's blood to open the door to his hometown, but Ophelia firmly refused.  She didn't want to leave a drop of blood to the next generation, but she paid the price with her own life.  Many readers may think that if the little girl had been a little more "flexible", for example, asking the baby to donate a few drops of blood, or obediently returning the baby to the captain, she would not have lost her life.  In fact, her persistence is precisely to fulfill the destiny of a revolutionary.  Revolution is to use sword and blood to open the door to the kingdom of heaven. This includes both the blood of the "enemy" and your own blood!

    Ophelia, who gave her own blood, completed a process similar to the crucifixion of Christ and finally returned to her "father".  This is a standard scene from the Book of Revelation in the Bible. In the temple of God, God the Father is high, and the Son of God is sitting next to him. He will rule the world for several years.  Ophelia, the revolutionary, became the ruler of the Christian Millennium Kingdom.  If we understand the origins of various radical political ideals (such as Utopia) and the Bible Revelation in the history of European thought, we can better understand this transformation.  The perfect ideal kingdom pursued by revolutionaries of all ages originally began with the Millennium Kingdom in the Book of Revelation.

    Throughout this process, from ideological enlightenment (eye patching), to revolutionary action (finding the key, getting the dagger), to bloodshed and sacrifice (death), to building a new society (fighting for the baby), and finally realizing the ideal kingdom (returning to hometown)  , Ophelia almost completed a complete revolution in her magical and real world.  The only thing missing here is the elimination of the enemies of the revolution.  As a moderate leftist, it seems inconsistent with the little girl's political stance to ask her to complete this task.  In the play, the director had her guerrilla friends do it for her.  In reality, Spain's subsequent democratization was achieved peacefully, and Franco's followers were almost unpunished.  The left and the right eliminated half a century of bloody hatred through progressive reforms.

    And now, even though I have intervened, many of the plots in the original plot have not happened.  But the essence is still the same!  Chen Shibo has enough confidence in whether Pan Shen will use Captain Vader in the end.  This confidence comes from the fact that the entire plot development has been completely changed due to Chen Shibo's intervention

    "Okay, Princess Mona, your last main mission is to open the door of the temple with Captain Vader's blood sacrifice! We still have five minutes, otherwise, you will never be able to return to the underworld or return to the underworld.  By your father's side!" Pan Shen said seriously.

    "Okay, Pan, I think my knight Ridley will be happy to help me with this task!" Ophelia saidHe said with eyes closed.  Ophelia didn't have much resistance to Vader's life and death.  Her biological father is the poor tailor (for now, when she returns to the underworld, she will become Hades!), not the cruel and tyrannical Captain Vader!

    "I am very happy to serve you, Your Royal Highness the Princess!" Chen Shibo said in a deep voice.  Chen Shibo had the urge to kill Vader as early as when he watched Blessing of Nightmares!  He hates violence!  I hate the brutal fascists!  As a person who is familiar with history, he hates the dictators during World War II even more than ordinary people!  Unfortunately, his current identity is that of "dictator", even though it is set in a nightmare space.

    And at this moment, the panting Captain Vader appeared in front of the three of them. His rapid running made him gasp for breath. Before he could speak, Chen Shibo quickly pulled out a pistol and pointed it at him.  His head pulled the trigger!  As a result, he never had a chance to speak again.  (The fastest direct example of the death of a supporting character! I will build a supporting character building later, and everyone can enthusiastically describe the characters of their imagination!)

    Ophelia and Pan Shen stared at Chen Shibo with blank faces.  Just kill Captain Vader like that?  Isn¡¯t there still a process of just trial or moral condemnation?  He died too quickly!

    "Dear Lord Pan, I think the third main mission has been completed, right?!" Chen Shibo looked at Pan Shen calmly and said.

    "Yes, it's done" Pan Shen stuttered, Chen Shibo's shot was so decisive and straightforward!  Until now, he still can't understand that according to his original script, things should not develop like this!

    (PS: I have finally finished writing the first volume! Here comes the 5,000-word chapter! I know this chapter will be reviewed, so it is estimated that everyone will only be able to see it in the afternoon. I hope everyone will give me their recommendation votes! I need it very much!  Your support will be a huge motivation for me! Thank you all!
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