Harry Potter at thirty-one

Edwardo 2022-03-16 09:01:02

Because of the epidemic, I was isolated at home for many days, and began to delete all the movies I wanted to watch but not watched in the past. Suddenly I had never seen the first Harry Potter, so I saw it at home in the afternoon at the age of 31 years and one month.

In fact, not only the first part, but also the first to fourth parts I haven't watched. The first time I saw Harry Potter was the Order of the Phoenix in 2007, just when I was about to go to the United States to study. From further back to the finale, all of them were added when they were released in the cinema. Although I have never had the previous foundation, I always know the general plot and basic settings from the hearsay and indirect quotations of various texts, so I can understand the plot in a whole way, and have some empathy with the characters like castles in the air.

I still remember that Harry Potter was in junior high school when the fire started. The classmates around me basically read it. Some of them also bought books, and a thick book that I carried to and from school every day. I remember that the price was relative to one. It's a luxury for students. Many classmates were brought together by my parents to watch. My parents did not have such a leisurely elegance, although they would buy me a thick copy of "The Revolution of Learning" when they were in elementary school. Of course, they hadn't read it in advance, they just heard that it was a sacred book, and they hoped to be a dragon. To this day, I am still very envious of those my peers who can watch the same movies and read the same novels as my parents. I have worked hard for many years, but I have never had them.

In retrospect, in junior high school, I deliberately avoided all popular culture, refused to listen to Jay Chou and SHE, and only bought the Océ version of "Light Music" and "I Love Rock and Roll" in each issue, and gave the Nirvana Gunflower and Manson inside. Poster on the bedroom wall. Of course, I do like the Nirvana Spears, but I think I would definitely like Jay Chou very much at the time, because I also have girls who want to hold hands and bring them to my grandmother’s house, and many of the anger towards the huge machine is forced to produce and express on the contrary. of. At that time, my academic performance was the most shining, and my heart was the most unreliable and eager to show. I hope everyone around, especially the girl I want to hold hands, know how different I am from the people around me. During the English test, I finished the papers in about one-third of the time, and then started to write down the names of the bands I knew on the table in the examination room with a pencil, starting from the bands in the 1960s and 70s, and from the 1980s to the 90s. At the climax, the entire table is densely written, and many of them, although I am familiar with the story, I haven't really heard a few of them. At that time, I might have a secret hope that when everyone returned to their classroom after the exam, the mediocre idiot in this class saw that his desk was filled with completely unknown names, would he report to the teacher as soon as possible, and then the teacher looked I was also shocked afterwards. Unfortunately, this never happened. I think those classmates somehow erased the names on the table. In retrospect, it was the same as the infrequent content in the celebrity quotes quoted in the essay at that time. The teacher was naturally surprised, but of course I never read Roman Roland or Dostoevsky completely.

After watching the Philosopher’s Stone with projection in the living room this afternoon, I felt very complicated for many reasons.

Part of it is related to movies. I already know a lot of life and death, love, hatred, and hatred. I return to the moment when each character appeared on the stage as if they had first seen it, and they didn’t seem to know the enemies and friends around me, their future growth, and the destiny of life. Naturally, they felt the vicissitudes of life and death. . Nowadays, as a popular culture, the plot of the screenwriter is very neat and classic, with intertwined light and dark, intergenerational blood, juvenile adventure, forbearing love, heroic sacrifice, not to mention magic and fantasy. Every young generation has a fantasy totem, I don't know if the previous generation is Saint Seiya. But Harry Potter is obviously in the magnificent worldview setting and delicate character emotions, achieving the extreme of reality and fantasy, just like a nine and three-quarters station passing through a wall.

There is a bigger part that may not have anything to do with the movie, because it reminds me of the girl I wanted to hold hands with 19 years ago, the boy holding the thick Harry Potter book, and a girl, She sang well and didn't get good grades, but told me that she especially liked Daniel Radcliffe. I laughed in my heart (I don't even remember whether you spoke it at the time). Your English is so bad, but you remember such a long translation. I didn't understand why I was so disliked by my classmates, and I was always in the depression of being lonely and admiring myself and being the girl I wanted to hold hands with. She has already given birth to a baby now. In 19 years, a baby will reach adulthood, a teenager will enter middle age, middle-aged people will grow old, and many elderly people have passed away. I didn't expect time to pass so fast. Thinking about it now, it was not long after the Internet bubble burst, and I was reading in the junior high school classroom while listening to the sound of basketball hitting the basket on the playground outside the window. I didn’t even know the wonderful story unfolding on the other side of the ocean. Twenty years later, I will study it carefully again, and have all kinds of unexpected adhesions and repercussions with my own life, as if I finally started to watch this movie.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone quotes

  • Ron: [Harry and Ron arrive late to Transfiguration, relieved that Professor McGonagall isn't there yet] Whew, made it. Can you imagine the look on old McGonagall's face if we were late?

    [the cat sitting at the head of the class suddenly transforms into her]

    Ron: That was bloody brilliant!

    Professor McGonagall: Well, thank you for that assessment, Mr Weasley. Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr Potter and yourself into a pocket watch? That way, one of you might be on time.

    Harry: We got lost.

    Professor McGonagall: Then perhaps a map? I trust you don't need one to find your seats.

  • Ron: What do they think they're doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?

    Hermione: You don't use your eyes, do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?

    Ron: I wasn't looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads... or maybe you didn't notice? There were three!