Pan's Labyrinth

I think the main theme and idea of the whole movie is disobedience. Del Toro, the director, is trying to tell us that it's okay to go against the flow, rather than conform to what you're "supposed" to do. Often in the movie, Ofeila doesn't follow orders that got her in hot water, but yet that is the way she is. She just wants to do things her way.
Disobedience is not always a good thing. When Ofelia ignored the pleas of the fairies to not eat from the delicious banquet where the monster with eyes in its hands sat and slept at the end of the banquet table. She went ahead and ate some grapes which woke up the monster and lead to the death of two fairies and Ofelia barely escaped. That shows you can't always ignore advice from others who know what they're doing.
However, it can be a good thing sometimes too. Without disobedience, many rebels who fought against the fascist soldiers would be dead because many people who worked for the infamous feared Captain secretly rebelled against him and helped them to win. The doctor and Mercedes worked hard to bring the soldiers' regime down by supplying the rebels with medicine.
I liked how Del Toro portrayed that the girl is on her own, and any mistakes she makes, she'll pay with her own life. In nearly any movie with young children in it, they have guardians who lead and protect them at every turn. Not this movie. There's people and monsters who want to kill Ofeila and no one is coming to save her.
The Captain and how Del Toro made the character interested me. The director made the Captain very methodical, cold, precise, narrow-minded, and a person who depends upon routine. He's shown in the movie that he cleans his pocket watch with care, shave, groom himself, and shines his shoes. Normally, that would be pointless in a lot of movies, but not Pan's Labyrinth. It proves that the Captain is not like many others. He is in a class of himself, and he's willing to do anything that's necessary and he will eliminate anything or anyone who gets in his way.
The end was unique. Ofelia died but yet she passed the test. I liked it because it plays with your mind. Was she truly the princess, and is she really in the underworld with her family now? Or is that all in her mind, and she's just an another dead girl? Through the movie, there are some hints that it may be a fantasy. Near the beginning when the girl read a fairy tale book, and the large insect came scurrying on her bed, and she showed the book to the bug with a picture of a fairy in it, and the bug changed in that. Why the same shape and kind of fairy from the book? Was she just bored and just fantasized about it?
The movie stands out from the rest because it breaks the rules in so many ways. Normally, a fantasy or a fairy tale ends with happiness, ray of lights, and everybody lives. Del Toro broke the rules by doing it in a dark and a different way. It may be different and in our minds we don't want that, and we don't want disobedience because that means trouble, but yet you have to stand up for what you think is right. If disobedience is the right way, then it is.