When Pinocchio is injured in the explosion towards the end he is also missing his left arm.Spazzatura is blind in their left eye, and this parallels with the textual character they are based on, the Cat, who loses a paw to Pinocchio in the original story.

The incomplete crucifix is missing its left arm.In early shots of Geppetto and Carlo's life together we see a three-legged dog missing its front left paw.Count Volpe's song is a good dramatic lead-in to the movie's darker political themes - after all, a core principle of fascist movements is dreaming up an idealistic (fictional) past state to which it is imperative to return.This is at least partially why Pinocchio is so gullible because he initially never sees other people's noses growing, he assumes that other people are saying exactly what they think and aren't being dishonest. But why? Well, when a fed-up Geppetto calls him a burden, Pinocchio believes him immediately because he didn't see Geppetto's nose grow. Before he gains some Character Development, Pinocchio is a Horrible Judge of Character and trusting to a fault. Geppetto also tells Pinocchio that when he lies, his nose grows.

It's also thematically connected to writer Patrick McHale's best-known work Over the Garden Wall, which also ends with a child gradually turning into a tree because he believes he is 'bad'.

This adds an intriguing interpretation to the way his nose 'grows' organically - it is a visual indication that his grip on his personhood is fading away and he is in danger of returning to the base materials from which he came.

In interviews, Guillermo del Toro has stated that in his version, Pinocchio's nose grows not just when he lies but when he is not true to himself.

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