At the end of the movie, Guillermo del Toro let Ofelia enter the fairy tale kingdom described by God Pan after being killed. This is simply the magic of the story. It is precisely because of this most obvious hint that the concept of magic realism using traditional magic to serve reality has been completely subverted, the proportion of magic has been greatly increased, and it is the first time that it stands on the same position as reality and becomes a whole. It can even be interpreted as the main thread of the story, which is reality in the physical sense.
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