I went to see the latest installment of Harry Potter armed with low expectations so that I would not be disappointed. Either my strategy worked wonders or this is the best Harry Potter movie to date.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong — it isn’t the book. It will never be the book. Like all the movies, it is a dramatization of a much loved story, probably difficult to understand or follow without the context provided by the book. And of course, no movie can provide as many details as a book. There simply isn’t time.<\/p>\n
Yet there were moments when the movie nearly brought tears to my eyes — deaths that barely touched me while I read the book but struck a chord when I saw it on the big screen. Even at the start, there is a truly touching and well-done moment (although one of those that I think would be difficult to understand without the book) in which Hermione erases her parents’ memory of her in order to protect them.<\/p>\n
The acting has been generally good throughout the series and has only improved as the actors have grown up, especially the main three, though they are supported by a talented group that all play their parts well.<\/p>\n
My biggest complaint is a scene in which, just after Ron leaves the group, Harry tries to cheer Hermione up in a way that I found distracting and out of character.I felt that it added a moment of sexual tension between the two that definitely did not need to be there.<\/p>\n
I also thought that in some of the slower moment, they could have brought in more of the details from the greater wizarding world — Dean Thomas on the run, for example, Neville and his crew making trouble up at the school.<\/p>\n
But of course, when you read and love a book, one of the difficulties with the adaptation to the screen is that each reader takes something different out of the experience — has different moments of importance that others didn’t share. So how I would have tweaked the screenplay isn’t all that relevant. Far more relevant is how the movie worked as a whole. And basically, yes, it worked. I got to relive my favorite moments from one of my favorite books in a way that made them come to life.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t read the books, then I have no idea how this movie will effect you, but if you have, then go in expecting a live-action version of some of your favorite scenes and you won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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