Pan's Labyrinth

[Mirage]

My thoughtsI think it can be taken two ways. Either that it all really happened but adults cannot see it because they are too cynical or lost their innocence or what have you. Or it was simply a fantasy and over-active imagination of a girl who is trying to escape the harshness of her reality.

Yes ofcourse, but what I meant was which one of those you believe in :p.

The mandragora thing was what made me lean towards the first of those two, because it was detectable by the others. The way she could use that door-making chalk to get into a room which was normally unavailable to her also seems to favour the first interpretation.