Harry Potter This Book Was Art Directed by David Saylor
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Directed by David Yates
Written by: Steve Kloves (screenplay), J.K. Rowling (novel)
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Runtime: 146 min Rated PG in Canada.
Deathly Hallows speaks to the soul
by Rev. Ted Giese
At dinner I said to my wife, "I saw something for my Christmas list … there's a 25th ceremony Blueish-ray edition of the Goonies." She said information technology made her feel sometime. A half-hour after we were sitting in the movie theatre waiting for the new Harry Potter picture show to commencement and, looking around I saw we were maybe the oldest people in the theatre at 35. I said that made me feel old.
This was somehow fitting considering the themes in the film. A generation has grown up with Harry Potter, reading the books and watching the films. If y'all were 10 years former in 1997 when Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone stormed the theatres and y'all saturday in the theatre Sat night of opening weekend with my married woman and I watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Office I then you would be around 23 years old, on the cusp of adulthood; although these days no 1 seems to grow up until they're in their 30s. If you haven't read the book upon which the electric current Harry Potter picture show is based and if y'all oasis't watched the moving-picture show, y'all may want to stop now because spoilers lay ahead.
At that place'southward a lot jammed into the film but the key theme, even more so than in the previous films, is the theme of growing up. In this film there seems to exist a sort of fear of ageing, trepidation in every step towards it; the developed world is full of darkness and trouble. There's even an underlying resentment of the responsibilities thrust upon the characters. Curiously, withal, the adult world has always been in the films, it's the maturing procedure of the children that reveals that world to Harry, Hermione and Ron over time. The by seems to catch up with them even as they run towards the futurity; toward their goal. This is all wrapped up in angst. The villains are significantly older than the central heroes and the truly aged are generally seen as frightening, as can be seen in the visage of the erstwhile woman in Harry's hometown who in truth harboured an amanuensis of Voldemort, the ophidian Nagini.
At ane point, while fighting the serpent, Harry is pressed into a child'due south room, brightly lit and coloured, highlighting the forced abandonment of babyhood by the work of evil around him. Even happy events associated with ageing, like the matrimony of Ron'south older blood brother, are interrupted and marred with the presence of evil: an evil that threatens to go along friends apart and brings death and harm.
The starkest case of this is found in the expiry of Dobby the firm-elf at the hand of Bellatrix Lestrange every bit Dobby rescues Harry and his friends from the clutches of the enemy. This is significant because Dobby first appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when the children were still fresh-faced and filled with joy and risk: at Dobby'south death in that location's a sense that a lot of that joy and take chances died with Dobby, even more so than at the death of Dumbledore in the conclusion of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
There is a dissimilarity between the two deaths and their treatment in the two films. At Dumbledore'due south death loyal students and teachers raised their wand in tribute reminiscent of people who evidence their appreciation at concerts with their lighter (former fashioned) or cell phones (new fashioned). While this was intended to exist emotional and heartbreaking the more intimate and more touching is the scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One in which Luna and Harry close the dead Dobby's eyes; where Dobby's little torso is cached by paw (with no magic) at the insistence of Harry who feels withal again responsible for the deaths surrounding him.
Entwined into the plot of the film is the film's namesake "the Deathly Hallows," the title of a children's fairy tale, in the magic world, bequeathed to Harry's friend Hermione by the late Hogwarts Headmaster Dumbledore. The fairy tale "the Deathly Hallows" is plant in an elementary reader The Tales of Beedle the Bard which Ron Weasley remembers fondly along with other fairy tales from the book. This seemingly innocent fairy tale, an emblem of babyhood, however is a portent of things to come up. Within the context of the film it's a fairy tale that's true and considering of this as the movie unfolds there appears nowhere for our characters to plow for relief—not babyhood, not anywhere, even a light moment of dancing in their tent can't cheer them up. Adulthood, responsibility and maturity have them pinned confronting the wall … it would near appear that the very fairy tale character of 'Death' from "the Deathly Hallows" has come alive and is in hot pursuit.
Decease as an adult business surfaces strongly in this film. Voldermort'southward name has a play on the word death in it; His followers are even called death eaters. From the beginning moving-picture show onward the evil night lord, who 'must not be named,' has been coming back from "the dead," growing in strength. Yet there's a catch. The mystery of his return is detailed more fully in this film: Voldemort has subconscious his soul away in objects and things to evade decease. He separate his soul into lilliputian parts and spread them effectually in Horcruxes, talismans that must be destroyed to destroy him.
This brings usa back to the real world with a question? Exercise the young people who have grown up with Harry Potter share these themes of fear of ageing, fear of growing up, resentment of responsibility and stalwartness in the face of duty that are presented in this piece of work of fiction? Do they share these concerns in their lives? Each of the heroic characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One, and many of the other characters, seem to struggle with their soul and when the soul of Voldemort lays broken and hidden in pieces the question that surfaces for the viewer is 'what do I think of when I call back of my soul?'
This may not exist a conscious question, merely acquit with me; Exercise you think the globe values the soul? Practise you lot value your soul? Do others value your soul? Does it feel similar it'southward broken into lilliputian pieces? Are yous struggling in a world total of darkness and problem? Are you struggling with deep questions like this while the world distracts itself with "Dancing with the Stars" and "America's Got Talent!"? Even though this film is based on a work of literary fiction practice y'all wish you had a place where you could talk near the feelings and ideas information technology brings up? Somewhere your soul is not fictional simply existent; where ageing, growing up, responsibilities and stalwartness need non be scary but rather imbued with joy and hazard—a place where your battered, broken soul tin can be repaired and put back together again?
In that location is a place like that, a real place, where a real hero fought and conquered death and evil with self sacrifice and honey: it'south the Kingdom of God and Christ Jesus is the King, He is the Hero and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He crushes the serpent's head and brings eternal life to the body and the soul no thing what your historic period.
As a film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Function One is well paced. Information technology's darker than previous outings and more serious in nature. Information technology has all the hallmarks of a franchise that has grown successfully with its audience and, like the book, has no qualms about tackling heady and challenging themes. Information technology's better than Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince (2009) also by director David Yates, with a much more satisfying ending and more captivating cliffhanger. The actors take settled comfortably into their roles and grown in their craft. The audience in the screening was very receptive and as I left 1 young man behind me said, "The adjacent one'southward going to be epic!"
Rev. Ted Giese is acquaintance pastor of Mountain Olive Lutheran Church, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; a contributor to Reformation Rush 60 minutes on KFUO AM Radio, The Canadian Lutheran and Reporter; and movie reviewer for the "Issues, Etc." radio plan. Follow Pastor Giese on Twitter @RevTedGiese.
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