To start this section, it seems fair to question Ophelia's common sense when warned specifically that eating anything from the table would awake the beast depicted in Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth'. Alas, in her second task assigned to her by the titular fawn, Ophelia ventures into the realm of the 'Pale Man' whereupon she finds a magnificent feast, untouched and cruelly tempting. At the end of the table sits the monster, motionless and seemingly asleep. After she retrieves the dagger, Ophelia finds herself unable to resist the temptations of the banquet and, much to the dismay of the accompanying fairies, she steals a grape. One could give her the benefit of the doubt and put it down to youth and the fact that grapes are very tasty - but by doing so, she awakens the Pale Man who, eyes inserted into palms, lumbers after her. Such is the terrifying nature of the beast and the uneasy similarities between the grapes and the eyeballs resting on the plate, that this scene sits atop as a particularly weird moment in a film of weird moments. What can we learn from it all? Stealing is bad, obviously.
