From the moment I saw the subtitle of this film, I knew that this film is no longer a cute little animal movie. The crime of Grindelwald, do you think it is to become the Dark Lord to start a war? In the eyes of fans, the biggest crime of the old devil is to play with our principal's feelings and hurt the principal's heart!
In the two-hour movie, although the principal and the devil's rivalry did not exceed 3 minutes, the various bright and dark lines clearly revolved around this pair of CPs. At the end of the movie, Newt and Tina were removed, brother and sister-in-law were removed, and For Jacob and Queenie, the Orochimaru and the pot cover were removed, just to put the fact of blood and tears in front of the audience: this whole movie, the whole series is a love tragedy, Dumbledore and Grindelwald did not make a break Before, none of you were allowed to have a happy ending.
The GGAD girl finished in tears and realized two facts when she walked out of the cinema:
First, I really got it this time. The principal and the demon king are bound together by officials, and the officials are forced to die together. The official hand can only make me kneel and call my father.
Second, their ending was spoiled as early as Harry Potter episode 1, when Harry drew the Dumbledore Wizard card: In 1945, Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald. The ending of this pair of CPs falling in love and killing each other is doomed. The key is how to love and kill.
Speaking of the official big hand, it is because he has laid countless lines in Divine Beast 2. This is not a stalk that you can find by flipping through Wikipedia such as "100 Things You Need to Know About Divine Beasts 2", but eating together with the original "Harry Potter" series, you will accidentally think too much Now, I was even horrified to find out that Rowling is really a mother/stepmother's meme. So I suggest that fans who are familiar with "Harry Potter" don't read those popular science posts that you are already familiar with, go back and read the book, you will come back and beat me (run away
about love
We all know that the encounter between Dumbledore and Grindelwald was "a boy who doesn't know love or hate, but the most heart-warming in his life". One was a Hogwarts honor student who had to stay at home to take care of his younger sister after his mother died, and the other could not achieve his ambitions. It was a rebellious teenager who dropped out of Durmstrang and couldn't wait to put his ambitions into practice. When the two met, they both saw their own shadows in each other, and it was logical to be attracted.
For Dumbledore, Grindelwald was what he wanted to be: a gifted man, a flamboyant personality, free from family concerns, and dedicated to a greater cause. First of all, we cannot deny that Grindelwald is handsome! Let's take a look at the memories that Harry, the little aesthetic expert, saw:
" Perched on the windowsill was a young blond boy in the shape of a big bird. Harry saw the handsome face fill with joy the moment the lantern's halo hit him, and then the uninvited guest fired a stun spell with his wand, He jumped out of the window, leaving behind a string of loud laughter. "
A glance is enough to see that the young Grindelwald is very charming. And I tend to think that the principal looks at the Demon Lord, not only by looking at his face - is our principal such a superficial person - but also seduced by Grindelwald's words. The US Secretary of Magic said that Grindelwald had a silver tongue, and Grindelwald's speech at the Paris cemetery was indeed very provocative. You can also imagine how he painted the future with Dumbledore in the summer of seventeen, promising those about the future. The "greatest cause" thing.
And what about Grindelwald vs Dumbledore? Rowling said in the interview that he just wanted to use Dumbledore - after all, the other is a wizard with top talent and similar aspirations - and use his charm appropriately to achieve his goals. Therefore, although the clip of the two teenagers interlocking their fingers and forming a blood alliance is really beautiful and screaming, but looking calmly, Dumbledore really closed his eyes reverently, trusting with all his heart. The other party, and Grindelwald stared at the other party with piercing eyes the whole time, as if he had finally caught his prey. The official is really a big hand, explaining this unequal love in just a few seconds of footage.
It's no wonder that after the two broke up, Dumbledore has been uneasy, staring at the Mirror of Erised every night. But Grindelwald didn't take him as the only one, and continued to go out to flirt with little boys and girls, such as Queenie with passive mind-reading skills, Credence, who is highly flammable, explosive, and unstable, and the East who is one with snakes. Loli Nagini, let alone the temptation of words, she is very close to others when she speaks, and she likes to touch her face and hug her. Just about to explode! Did Rowling learn from Kihara Otise and write scumbags? The worst thing is not breaking up, but breaking up and telling you, you're not the only one, and I'm the same with others.
The Crimes of Grindelwald, that really fits the theme.
but! If this is just a story of love and betrayal, it will be the same as our previous understanding, and it is worthy of so many lines buried in this film. As I watched, I was thinking, Grindelwald, a Dark Lord who is insulated from the word "Tsundere", did he really never love?
I never loved you. Why did you carry the Blood Alliance brooch with you? When you escaped from prison, the magic wand was snatched back. The carriage was driving, and you still don’t feel relieved to leave. You must take the brooch with your own hands to reveal the boss’s famous knowing smile.
I never loved you. Why did the vinegar smell all over the place when I saw Newt? In Myth Beast 1, I said, "Why does Dumbledore like you so much?" My Beast 2 specifically picked Newt 1v1, and said, "Dumbledore will do it for you. Are you mourning?" With this murderous sentence, Angel Newt's face turned white! Everyone knows that the loyal and brave Hufflepuff is never afraid of death, look at Tonks, look at Kingsley, Newt is not afraid of duels, he is the old gossip of being smashed by the headmaster, and also being used by the devil. The love rival is so terrifying!
I never loved you, why did you deliberately let Sniffle steal the blood alliance brooch! Don't tell me it was stolen by accident. Grindelwald is in a dungeon in New York. He can open a protective barrier to slay flies when his wand is taken away, and sniff such a big magical creature. Can you not notice! He clearly intended to send the blood alliance to Dumbledore. Do you think Grindelwald himself can't break the blood alliance? He chose to hand over the choice to Dumbledore and told him: The old ticket has been given to you, and you have to try if you can board my passenger ship again.
I never loved you. Why did you tell Credence that you were actually from the Dumbledore family, and taught him to summon the phoenix. Either Credence is really a relative of the Principal, or he is a passerby that the Demon King flicked to deal with the Principal. In short, with a word from the Demon King, I will fight to the end with Dumbledore. I have a phoenix, you have a phoenix, let us Staged a phoenix begging for the phoenix.
I'm not going to talk about the obvious G-inserted D logo on the Blood Alliance, or why the Ministry of Magic knew that there was a passage when the Headmaster Demon King was young-mostly when Grindelwald deliberately threw it into the Pensieve during an interrogation by the New York Ministry of Magic. Let's play the pure principal in 3D for everyone, and form an alliance online. In short, Grindelwald, although he said on the surface that I was going to find someone to kill Dumbledore and flirting with girls everywhere, but he did all these things to tell the headmaster: Come and see me! It doesn't matter if you fight me or do something else! In short, come soon, the world will be destroyed when it is too late!
...a Dark Lord who is insulated from the word "Aojiao", but is actually practicing Aojiao.
Compared with "loved", I prefer that Grindelwald gradually realized the kind of feeling he didn't know should be named "love" after more than 20 years of separation. Otherwise he wouldn't have had to interact with Dumbledore when he was his Dark Lord and fought his Muggle wars. Moreover, it was written in this article of "Harry Potter" that even in the heyday of Grindelwald's power, he did not set foot in England, and the battlefield of Divine Beast 2 was also in Paris. Grindelwald could have avoided it, but perhaps those feelings he could not name led him to make choices that strayed from the "greater good."
Divine Beasts 2 took place in 1927, 18 years before the decisive battle in 1945. In the past 18 years, something must have happened that made Grindelwald realize his true heart. Otherwise, with his strength, the final decisive battle will not be defeated. Perhaps at that time, he realized that he really couldn't fight against the lover he hadn't seen for many years.
And what happened to Dumbledore, who "really can do it", in these 18 years? Speaking of which, are you still looking forward to the third part!
Finally, let's talk about casting. Are you used to seeing the little fresh meat with traffic? How come no one realizes that GGAD is online from the youth group to the middle-aged group! Not to mention the junior group, I can make up a 10,000-word novel in 3 seconds; when the middle-aged group was cast, I screamed Mandrake! Jude Law and Depp, but before the British One, Two, Three, and the United States dominated the market, they were already responsible for the appearance of major movies. Although they have passed their peak appearance, you can feel their appearance at their peak:
If it was true that these two faces were playing magical creatures when they were young, the CP of GGAD should explode in the whole universe...
About the family
The overwhelming public accounts are complaining about the scattered plot of Divine Beasts 2, especially the story line of the Lestrange family, which seems to have nothing to do with the main line. I'm stunned. Did you write the official account and haven't read the Harry Potter book, or Dumbledore's Wikipedia page? Obviously the Lestrange line is an important main line! Because it's the story of Dumbledore himself!
Rita Lestrange's mother died in childbirth and her father remarried, and she was not liked since she was a child. After her younger brother was born, she took on the task of taking care of her younger brother, but in a shipwreck, because of a temporary intention to swap her younger brother with another baby, she accidentally caused her younger brother to fall into the water and die. This also became a knot in her heart - it was her nightmare when she faced Boggart.
In contrast to Dumbledore, his mother died unexpectedly, and he was forced to stop his school trip and go home to take care of his sister Ariana. It can be seen from the plot of magical creatures that Ariana is also a silent, powerful but uncontrollable, sensitive and easy to runaway. During Dumbledore's quarrel with Grindelwald and Aberforth, an unknown spell hit Ariana, killing her unexpectedly.
Are they two very similar stories? The same repressed teenager, the same lack of father and mother, also accidentally killed his own blood relatives. God knows, when I watched the bloody incident at the Lestrange family, I turned my head and thought about the conversation between Rita and Dumbledore when I went back to school, and I felt so bad for the headmaster! Rita asked him, do you love your sister? Dumbledore said with a sad and weary face: Not as loving as I thought.
That's what a regretful person would say. The original me, after reading Dumbledore's recollections, thought that what he regretted was that he might have accidentally killed his sister. And Rita's story shows the real reason for her regret: at the moment she made the decision, at least at that time, she really wanted her brother to die. "My brother keeps crying, he's too noisy. I just want him to be quiet, even for a little while." The dark heart at this moment really caused irreversible consequences, only Rita knew that it was not an accident, That was her intention. This was the real fear in her heart.
So is Dumbledore the same? In the face of his sister who might run away at any time, he must have had a moment when he thought "it would be nice if she wasn't here". The appearance of Grindelwald was a fuse: he said what Dumbledore always wanted, but dared not say: leave this home and pursue your ideals. This made Dumbledore even more shaken, which is why he missed in the melee. It doesn't matter who killed Ariana, what matters is that Dumbledore knew that he once wanted his sister to disappear, and he didn't love her as much as he thought.
Rowling likes to use metaphors to write the story of another person with a similar family, and the Dumbledore family is obviously one. Perhaps the film team felt that it was too innocuous to directly film Dumbledore's teenage years, after all, we already knew the ending; perhaps the juvenile group actors' schedules were full, but they couldn't make long scenes. Maybe this movie is deliberate, to use such a metaphor to tell us about Dumbledore's past and future. In the end, Rita could not bear the torment in her heart and chose to face Grindelwald, desperately protecting the Newt brothers.
In the sixth volume of "Harry Potter", in order to get the Horcrux, Dumbledore drank poison while repenting of his mistakes, saying "It's over." It was the first time he had shown vulnerability in front of Harry. Combined with his guilt for Ariana, maybe he finally fell from the clock tower, but it was the ending he had been praying for. After destroying several Horcruxes and arranging the final battle, Dumbledore also used his last moments to protect Malfoy. Also unable to bear the guilt and chose death, Dumbledore went much farther - until the last moment of his life, he did not give up on anyone. This may be his repentance for giving up Ariana when he was young, and he completed the redemption for himself with actions.
It is worth mentioning that the Lestrange family has another prophecy, and this story has not yet been written. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this prophecy is about the Dumbledore family, and they can look forward to the performance of Aberforth, who was a goat lover in his youth and has become a pleasant old man in his later years. I said here, you really don't want to watch the third part! ?
About the future
When Grindelwald's eyes change color, he can see into the future. This setting is really explosive. In the movie, it was used to predict World War II, but serious predictions can’t stop us from making up our minds. Haven’t you thought about where the Demon King made predictions in other places?
For example, in the blood alliance, although the camera took less than a second, it was obvious that Grindelwald's eyes had changed color. When he made the oath, he had realized that he would part ways with Dumbledore. Thinking about it one more step, he probably made a promise not to hurt each other just because he knew that they would become enemies in the future. The Great Demon King may have thought that this oath was to prevent Dumbledore from harming him, but he did not expect that it might be himself who was bound.
Another example is that in the main timeline, although Grindelwald has been imprisoned all the time, he may have predicted some things and tried to tell Dumbledore... He knew about the rise of Voldemort and the boy who survived the catastrophe. Knowing the Dark Mark reappears, and the Order of the Phoenix. Dumbledore is always calm and strategizing, is it because he has been silently spoiled by his friends for the future? Of course, we have no way of knowing whether Grindelwald tried to persuade Dumbledore when he predicted Dumbledore's death. Perhaps at that time, Grindelwald realized that he would finally lose his worst enemy and most important lover forever, and he understood the meaning of the word "love". He said to Voldemort that there are some things you will never understand, but didn't he himself spend his whole life to understand this, something that was doomed as early as the summer of 17 years old.
About the protagonist
Although the subject of this review is the principal and the devil, the protagonist of the film is really the little angel Newt - and his box of magical beasts! Even if I am dead and nailed in a coffin, I will cry out in this rotten voice:
Give me little animals! I'm going to see more critters in the next episode!
After all, I came here to be cute, so why did I watch the principal and the demon king fall in love and kill each other?
PS I am finally a person who has written a small paper for my cute CP...
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