| dc.description.abstract | Guillermo del Toro’s filmography uses recurrently old formulas such as archetypal folk
and fairy- tale motifs and characters, adapting them to contemporary culture and society.
The fantastic acts as a parallel universe to our logical world. His films describe
a supernatural reality that intertwines with the ordinary world, using the archetypes
of these narrations in the real world. Del Toro claims the figure of the monster as one
of his outstanding characters, showing that the classical monsters are usually represented
as vulnerable creatures subjected to the brutality of the human being. His films
have a utopian spirit, mixed with fairy tales exclusively for adults, morality, goodness
or the capacity of sacrifice of his protagonists, the overcoming of obstacles and the
deepening of a state of knowledge and virtue. Fantasy serves the director as a vehicle
to introduce political and social issues through a series of metaphors, which are appreciable
in films such as Pan’s Labyrinth, Crimson Peak or The Shape of Water. | es |
