{"id":264615,"date":"2023-02-04T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264615"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T08:40:12","slug":"the-occult-meaning-of-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264615","title":{"rendered":"The Occult Meaning of \u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vigilant Citizen \u2013 Feb 2, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Warning: Ginormous spoilers ahead!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Guillermo del Toro is a movie director known for combining fairy tales with elements of horror, in a distinctive visual style that tends towards the grotesque. He is also known for crafting stories that take place in oppressive contexts where fascism, fatherhood, and Christianity are recurrent themes. His latest movie \u2013 Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio \u2013 <\/em>perfectly encapsulates all of these characteristics. In fact, the movie is so quintessentially Guillermo del Toro that his name is embedded right in the movie\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

Guillermo del Toro\u2019s version of Pinocchio<\/em> is rather dark, creepy, and off-putting. While those who are familiar with the director\u2019s style probably expected it, I\u2019m convinced that quite a few parents thought that this would be a children\u2019s movie. I mean, it can easily be found in the \u201ckids\u201d section of Netflix.<\/p>\n

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The movie\u2019s thumbnail, as seen on Netflix. It definitely looks like a children\u2019s movie \u2026 until one realizes that Pinocchio\u2019s nose is rather \u2026 phallic.<\/p><\/div>\n

While everything about this movie \u2013 from the source material to the stop motion visual style \u2013 screams out \u201cchildren\u2019s movie\u201d, del Torro himself said that it was not made for children.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily made for<\/em> children, but children can watch it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sure, children can<\/em> watch it, but don\u2019t expect them to see the cute, rounded Pinocchio of the classic Disney movie. Nope, del Torro\u2019s version of Pinocchio is an off-putting, jittery, and unstable pile of twigs whose limbs keep bending in all kinds of unnatural ways. Also, he dies several times during the movie. Furthermore, the story spends lots of time dwelling on dark concepts such as war and mortality while taking place in a universe that\u2019s populated with lots of creepy creatures. In short, this movie can easily turn into nightmare fuel for children.<\/p>\n

But beyond the overall creepiness of this movie, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio <\/em>communicates a profound occult message. And that was to be expected from del Toro.<\/p>\n

In my 2010 article about del Toro\u2019s Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em><\/a>, I looked into the intense occult symbolism of the movie. I won\u2019t explain the entire thing here however, in this case, a picture is worth a thousand words.<\/p>\n

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This screenshot sums up Pan\u2019s Labyrinth: The horned god Pan \u201cinitiates\u201d a young girl named Ophelia. And it\u2019s all very creepy.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/em> shares several similarities with Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio<\/em>: It takes place in a fascist regime (Franco\u2019s Spain), the main character is a child and there\u2019s a horned monster acting as a guide throughout. More importantly, the movies share a similar \u201cmoral of the story\u201d.<\/p>\n

A Very Different Pinocchio<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio\u201d is a complete retelling of the original tale of Pinocchio but with an underlying message that is widely different. Vigilant Citizen looks at the symbolism of this (creepy) movie and the dark occult meaning behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":264607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-The_Media","category-The_Unexplained_esoteric_and_hidden_knowledge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264617,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264615\/revisions\/264617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}