genre pans

• Narrative = allegorical (a symbolic narrative which departs from realism in order to convey universal themes)
• The fantasy genre not only depicts the power of the childhood imagination as a relepellent against the corruption.
• What are four structural features used in the film?

  Fairy tale motifs

  Antithetical feautres - juxtaposing between the worlds; postwar spain and the underworld, where contrasts provide an illuminating commentary

  Antithetical features are sustained by the binary oppositions

  Symmetrical and circular features.