I saw in the comments that the plot was confusing and incomprehensible. After all, it is the magical world that I like, so I still want to explain it. If you are willing to share two minutes, maybe the previous confusion will disappear?
Based on the information currently available, let us speculate and sort out Aunt Rowling's conception.
First of all, look at the title, is this film about Fantastic Beasts?
No, it's about Grindelwald. Fantastic Beasts is just the name of the series, a big frame and environment in which the story takes place, but not the details and themes that fill the story.
Secondly, the main line of this movie, to be precise, is the main line of the Fantastic Beasts series the story of Fantastic Beasts?
Certainly not.
Is that a Newt-led quartet story?
Arguably yes or no, as Newt is the ostensible protagonist of the series, the de facto lead character.
So is the real protagonist Grindelwald in the title?
Neither.
The actual main mission is the 1945 Wizarding Showdown, and the real protagonist is the middle-aged Dumbledore and his "old man + opponent" Grindelwald.
But is it just that?
If so, it would be too underestimating Aunt Rowling. What Aunt Rowling really wanted to talk about was the two factions and two different ideologies represented behind Dumbledore and Grindelwald. The metaphor is from 1926 to 1945. In the real human society during the years, everything else serves it.
So in the end, you have to ask, why do you want to talk about Fantastic Beasts and Newt if you can talk about it directly like this?
This is to return to the limitations of the Harry Potter series on the story of Dumbledore and Grindelwald. The two met when they were young, and only had a like-minded time for more than two months. Then something changed, they broke up and went their separate ways until 1945. In the decisive battle of 2010, the two people who had already reached middle age met again.
There are no rival scenes, so if you write it directly, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, so a connection point must be built in the middle, so the clue character - Dumbledore's most trusted friend - Newt appeared. Newt and Credence are the connecting characters of the two old men, threading the needle in the middle to jointly promote the progress of the plot to 1945.
As for Fantastic Beasts, in addition to building a fantastic and lovely magical world, it can be seen from the end of the two films that the important function is to be a god assist teammate in Newt's fight against monsters (Grindelwald), and will also fight against the 1945 final battle. Dumbledore played an important supporting role in defeating Grindelwald.
After clarifying the role and inner logic of the existence of each character, we return to the plot itself of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald". Personally, I think this film is a multi-line cross-cutting model.
First of all, it is clear: the biggest conflict that the entire series has always implied is "how to deal with the relationship between wizards and Muggles", alluding to various problems in the real world during World War II and people's inner choices.
Then we fade out the unimportant Newt's love line and the Newt's family line that only introduces the appearance of the characters, and make a simple division of the film:
Two superficial main lines: 1. The inner conflict and choice of the four-person group headed by Newt (perfectly including the key point of the conflict - wizards and Muggles) when facing the team. 2. Credence, who was silently sojourned, was looking for the mystery of his life experience.
Two main branch lines: the silent story line of Fantastic Beasts and the story line of the Rita family, as the connection point of the above two superficial main lines Newt and Credence, they are perfectly crossed and integrated together in the latter part of the film. Together they point to the real plot line: the conflict between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and how to deal with the relationship between wizards and Muggles.
Therefore, if it is simply divided, there are five lines that cross and go hand in hand. The first four are all auxiliary lines, and only the last one is the real main line, and this main line will run through from the first to the fifth. Aunt Rowling's writing is indeed bold, but it also tests the patience of the audience.
Therefore, don't take Newt and Fantastic Beasts too seriously. What Newt provides in the film is actually a bystander's perspective. This is a movie that is completely different from the protagonist's perspective in the Harry Potter series. A total of five series of movies, after seeing the logic of the entire series, the above problems will be solved, and applying this logic to the first "Fantastic Beasts" can also explain the seemingly incomprehensible points.
Finally, as usual, two years later, Shen 3 will meet. Shen 3 will lead to a climax after the transition in front. The balance of Lao Deng and Lao Ge in the main line is estimated to be in favor of Lao Deng, and he begins to tell about Lao Deng's inner entanglements and choices, and about middle-aged and elderly people. How Deng pressed the wounds and selfishness of his youth to become the intelligent, calm, humorous and selfless old Deng with a white beard that we saw in Harry Potter. Secretly looking forward to the old Deng Laoge falling in love and killing each other for many years (shut up, cross it out), is expecting Aunt Rowling to bring the relationship conflict between wizards and Muggles back to the Harry Potter series.
Finally, put a sniff, and wish the barley! ?
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