# Pan’s Labyrinth

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-locke/pans-labyrinth>

**By** Paul Meany, Akiva Malamet, Alexander Craig, Landry Ayres, Natalie Dowzicky

**Published:** August 18, 2021

---

Alexander Craig, Akiva Malamet, and Paul Meany join the podcast to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s award-winning, Pan’s Labyrinth.

## Summary:

Pan’s Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy war film. The story takes place in Spain during the summer of 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, during the early Francoist period. The narrative intertwines this real world with a mythical world centered on an overgrown, abandoned labyrinth and a mysterious faun creature, with whom, Ofelia, interacts.