Finally Saw Deathly Hallows Pt. 2
Did I love it?
...I can't tell yet. I feel like I felt after I saw Alan Rickman in John Gabriel Borkman. I couldn't decide how I felt about it until well after the fact. Then I decided that I didn't like it. Still loved Rickman, was quite impressed by the great Lindsay Duncan and blown away by Fiona Shaw. But I didn't like it.
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...I can't tell yet. I feel like I felt after I saw Alan Rickman in John Gabriel Borkman. I couldn't decide how I felt about it until well after the fact. Then I decided that I didn't like it. Still loved Rickman, was quite impressed by the great Lindsay Duncan and blown away by Fiona Shaw. But I didn't like it.
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And one can only imagine how much more richness and depth there would have been if Harry and the others had been told this story early on combined with having a moral framework in which to handle such choices rather than having to make them helter skelter. Because at the end they just recreate the old biases that helped lead to the war. And what's the point of that? This. You have just put your finger right on it, my dear, and the problem's not only in the films (though it's really blatant there), but in the books too. Other than patting little ASP on the head and telling him it's OK if he ends up in Slytherin (the old attitudes are still there if little James can make a painful tease from it) there's no acknowledgement that the house you're in doesn't automatically destine you for evil. Of all of the twisted morals of the wizarding world, the one that decrees the abandonment of 11 year old kids who are sorted into the 'wrong' house as lost is, imho, one of the worst.
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Other than patting little ASP on the head and telling him it's OK if he ends up in Slytherin (the old attitudes are still there if little James can make a painful tease from it) there's no acknowledgement that the house you're in doesn't automatically destine you for evil. Of all of the twisted morals of the wizarding world, the one that decrees the abandonment of 11 year old kids who are sorted into the 'wrong' house as lost is, imho, one of the worst.
Yep. Makes me a bit ill actually. I mean of course this isn't the real world, but in some ways it's as if Snape's death was in vain. And for me it puts his death,from the canon point of view, in a new light. I see now why he didn't let Dumbles tell anyone about his love for Lily. Their bias was so deeply ingrained it wouldn't have changed their world view at all. And he would have been mercilessly mocked to the end of his days. And that's DAMN shame =^(
On the other hand, I suppose it's rather like a Grimm's fairy tale isn't it? The original ones weren't so much about right and wrong but about what you could get away with. And for now they can get away with treating Gryffindor as all right and Slytherin as all wrong.
Oh I also didn't like the way they showed the Malfoys walking/running away. They were actually in the castle at the end and it was clear that Lucius didn't give a crap about anything anymore but his family. But did they show that? NO.
Sigh, again, missed opportunities...
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