Screening "Pan's Labyrinth"

I went to a screening of "Pan’s Labyrinth" last night, the latest movie from Guillermo del Toro. The plot quickly delves into a sophisticated fairy tale about a princess destined to return to her netherworld kingdom and be reunited with her father. The real beauty of the film is that it simply tells a good story without relying heavily on special effects or some Hollywood formula. The end of the movie, as with all fairy tales, does end on a happy note but left one major question: did this story really happen? or do we construct these fantastic tales as a coping strategy? How much of our own reality is fabricated to cope with our environment? Can, and do, we convince ourselves that we are living in a better--or worse for that matter--world than actually exists?