Representation

La Haine 

Representation of women:
-There are no women in the film except the two women in the art gallery, who are merely viewed as a sex object/something to look at and admire
-The fact that there are no main female characters in the film show that women have little say and are oppressed




Pan's Labyrinth

Representation of women:
-3 main female characters who are clearly oppressed and have little say / voice
-Set in a Fascist, patriarchal society
-Representations of the female body; the tree symbolises the shape of the womb, and the blank book that Ofelia reads which bleeds blood also resembles of the womb

Religious representations:
-In the second quest, Ofelia must not eat anything from the feast that sits on the table in front of the Pale Man. This could have a biblical representation, like Eve and the forbidden fruit, Ofelia takes the grape from the table.

Mirroring:
-The Pale Man and his feast mirrors Vidal's feast with his friends. The Pale Man is a representation of the oppressive powers; Vidal, the Catholic Church and Spanish Fascism.
-The magical, hallucinative world mirrors the real world