Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

This is one of those films that you have to see, whether you have read the books, seen the other films or just like to feel randomly enchanted. I am of the first two categories, I read all books in two languages and at least once, some twice and some more, also the films have all been seen in cinema except for POA, some I have seen twice in cinema and multiple times on tv. Harry Potter belongs to my childhood as much as Pipi Longstocking belongs to Swedish children and grown-ups, I grew up with both and still enjoy the little things that make them what they are. Harry Potter is not a particularly challenging book series but it did create a whole new world we could explore and came to love with all it's strange animals and over-analysed characters.

The Deathly Hallows is probably one of the best in the series, when it comes to the films. It has none of the bad acting the first one had, none of the bad CGI's and none of the bad script writing of the Half-blood Prince. The first part of this film was pretty much in line with the books, even though I have come to hate Daniel Radcliff by now, that scrawny body of his with too much chest hair. I am not too fond of Emma Watson either, something about her bugs me, though I still like Rupert Grint, I think he probably he the best out of the three. I was delighted to see some of the characters back with their always apparent wit or good placed jokes. Of course, this film was even darker than all the previous ones together, but that is to be expected.

The world has been taken over by Voldemort and his army of Death Eaters and Snatchers. The ministry's job is to catch the mudbloods and those who are against Voldemort's reign of darkness. Somehow the way they portrait Voldemort and his followers reminded me of Hitler and Communism, as the propaganda found in Umbridge's office showed some resemblance to those times. Magic is Might sounds so much like something that would fit into Orwell's 1984. It is Harry Potter's job to find the horcruxes and defeat Voldemort in a final battle. We all know that Harry wins and lives happily ever after. Don't tell me I have been spoiling it for you, just read the dancing books!Not only did part of it sounds like a nazi-regime, they also travel around with a pendant they keep around their necks that turns them violent after a while, it sounds a bit Lord of the Rings, doesn't it, which again is inspired by WWII. I feel hint of J.K. Rowling recreating WWII and WWIII here, which never happened as expected, but might as well still be on it's way or be even fought over the internet and will manifest itself by imprisoning leaders of certain sites that leak certain information, who knows!

Was it worth to drag my father along to drive us through the snow in his car so we could see it together, definitely. It really does have some good scenes in it and is true to the books, more than any other of the series.

If you don't hear from me again after this, it might be because I have been snowed in and for some mysterious reason all ways of communication are failing. It could happen you know! At least I got a layer of blubber to keep me warm. The world is starting to fall asleep under a white blanket or frozen water. Enjoy your holidays everyone!

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