Sound: Pan's Labyrinth and City of God

Leitmotif - Ofelia's humming at the beginning is a refrain that is repeated throughout the movie - sounds like a lullaby but is almost used contrapuntally (as with the horror genre) giving it a haunting, unsettling quality. It's key fills it with sadness and melencholy and it is played both diegetically and non-diegetically at various points in the movie. Aural motifs, such as Ofelia's lullaby, are a powerful way of signalling the presence of a character, delivering information about the mood or state of mind of the character or as a means of indicating important narrative information regarding that character to the audience. Whether used diegetically or non-diegetically, these character themes can rpresent sonically particular characteristics, the narrative role and the psychological state of a character. A character theme can also imply the impact of one character

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