Marisa Coulter, played by Nicole Kidman, represents the power groups in the adult world of rule-making who hold the voice and demand that children follow their rules and do what they want, while Lyra Belacqua, played by Dakota Blue Richards Representing the group of children, they have free will, have a strong curiosity about everything, and hope to understand this society through their own thinking. Lord Asriel, played by Daniel Craig, represents a group of people whose free will is unchecked. If this group grows, it will affect the interests of the power group. The dean of the academy represents a group that wants to give children free space to grow up. However, as subordinates under the power system, they are controlled by the power group and cannot compete with the power group, only obedience. The armored bear, I think, may represent the power of nature; the walking of the armored bear with Lyra Belacqua seems to imply that children are the human group closest to nature.
Children want to develop their own free will, which has been opposed to the will of power groups. This contradictory situation makes the rule-makers who have the right to speak panic, worrying that in the process of free growth, children learn to think about the rationality of the real society with the development of free will, thus affecting their (power groups) The legitimacy and rationality of power are questioned, which endangers the stability of its own (power group) power. In order to maintain the stability and continuity of their own power and cultivate a group of people who obey the rules of power, the power group needs to stifle the free will of the children, that is, to separate the children's spirits from their bodies, so that the children lose their free will and lose their freedom. The ability to think freely and become the follower and supporter of the power rules.
This is just my personal opinion on the film. Perhaps, I have overinterpreted this film; perhaps I have misinterpreted this film.
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