under sleep where all the waters meet
SAW IT. LOTSA FEELINGS
My brain is a bit of a mess right now. Srry. ~17 000 words in two weeks will do that to a person.
- The Big Bad really did not feel authentic. Argh. It really threw me because it just messed up the tone and really derailed the sense of place. The angst didn't work as well as it could have, and the movie didn't feel part of narnia. This could have been an easy fix! A scene of the victims from the slave trade island being fucking furious at caspian for finally showing up after all these years, and you're done. Perhaps a line about Narnia making sure to check up on her distant governors. None of the islands felt like real places.
- I think this was also a movie about moving and transitions, in more ways than several, but I think they also shot themselves in the foot on that count. The places that were places didn't feel place-y enough, and the ones that weren't therefore had nothing to differentiate their liminality. Also, I just really wanted some lingering shots of, you know, the closeness and nowhereness of being trapped at sea.
- NEEDED BETTER EVIL.
- Edmund was the saving grace on that one. And yet there was a sense that...it was all just temptation. I didn't really get a sense of the stakes. Like, okay, he takes imaginary witch's hand, they all die by vaginal sea serpent and narnia is overtaken by...by what, exactly? Edmund's previous encounters with Jadis have had a sense of stakes to them. She's still real. But here it was too much "it's all in your head" for me to really be sold.
- Ben Barnes is obscene. OBSCENE. Who DIDN'T he make out with in that movie?
- Eustace was perfect. HE WAS SO PERFECT. Oh my gosh. I love, at the end, the strange little moment that passes between him and aslan, where he knows he'll be back. And he's not overjoyed.
-LOVED the ending. Loved it. Those moments when they just sit there in silence and the huge sadness of it all engulfs them. Oh, oh my heart. The film needed more of that. It was also an excellent echo of LWW where they all tumble out and just...look at each other.
This film could have been very Marina. But I think...I just didn't buy the hardship, the struggle of it. Prince Caspian was grueling, it was brutally sad and achingly triumphant. This one just wasn't. Yes it was an adventure, but adventures in Narnia aren't always fun. This film missed that, I think.
My brain is a bit of a mess right now. Srry. ~17 000 words in two weeks will do that to a person.
- The Big Bad really did not feel authentic. Argh. It really threw me because it just messed up the tone and really derailed the sense of place. The angst didn't work as well as it could have, and the movie didn't feel part of narnia. This could have been an easy fix! A scene of the victims from the slave trade island being fucking furious at caspian for finally showing up after all these years, and you're done. Perhaps a line about Narnia making sure to check up on her distant governors. None of the islands felt like real places.
- I think this was also a movie about moving and transitions, in more ways than several, but I think they also shot themselves in the foot on that count. The places that were places didn't feel place-y enough, and the ones that weren't therefore had nothing to differentiate their liminality. Also, I just really wanted some lingering shots of, you know, the closeness and nowhereness of being trapped at sea.
- NEEDED BETTER EVIL.
- Edmund was the saving grace on that one. And yet there was a sense that...it was all just temptation. I didn't really get a sense of the stakes. Like, okay, he takes imaginary witch's hand, they all die by vaginal sea serpent and narnia is overtaken by...by what, exactly? Edmund's previous encounters with Jadis have had a sense of stakes to them. She's still real. But here it was too much "it's all in your head" for me to really be sold.
- Ben Barnes is obscene. OBSCENE. Who DIDN'T he make out with in that movie?
- Eustace was perfect. HE WAS SO PERFECT. Oh my gosh. I love, at the end, the strange little moment that passes between him and aslan, where he knows he'll be back. And he's not overjoyed.
-LOVED the ending. Loved it. Those moments when they just sit there in silence and the huge sadness of it all engulfs them. Oh, oh my heart. The film needed more of that. It was also an excellent echo of LWW where they all tumble out and just...look at each other.
This film could have been very Marina. But I think...I just didn't buy the hardship, the struggle of it. Prince Caspian was grueling, it was brutally sad and achingly triumphant. This one just wasn't. Yes it was an adventure, but adventures in Narnia aren't always fun. This film missed that, I think.