Go sleep now?

Since I was writing my paper on labyrinths, I wanted to wait to read everyone's comments on the film until after I had finished. Preserve my initial assessment type thing. Of course, now that I'm all done and have read the billion comments I never want to write about labyrinths again. Nevertheless, I would like to get the class's opinion on something (something I didn't write about in my paper. Yay!) Unlike, say, the movie Labyrinth with David Bowie, very little of the fantastical action takes place within the garden maze. Ofelia's ordeal with the toad arguably occurs underground, not in a branch of the magical kingdom. In the meantime, what the official Pan's Labyrinth website calls an ogre, a.k.a. the Pale Man exists in an intriguing, yet unspecified location. Basically, I'm used to the monsters staying in the labyrinth and wondered if these creatures were also somehow trapped by the labyrinth's power. I find it somewhat strange to think of a kingdom as idealistic as Princess Moanna's harboring Mr. Creepy Cannibal.
While I'm at it, I also want to note my disappointment regarding the second challenge. For starters, Ofelia accomplished that task for all practical purposes by retrieving the knife. So the faun had no good reason to revoke her birthright. For finishers, why did Ofelia go through that harrowing experience if the blood of the innocent could just as suitably be shed with a gun? I feel the faun is at fault somewhere and hope the king gives him a stern talkin to.