Director David Yates probably wants us to understand this truth. When we grow up, our personal magical ability becomes unimportant, adapting to the rules of the game, interpersonal games, self-will, political factions, pulling distance, mutual Checks and balances, sacrifices and trade-offs... are the keys to victory. Magic is just a weapon, and the criticality of a weapon is the least of the whole strategy. Whether you're a wizard or a Muggle, the most terrifying enemy is always the heart and soul.
As I walked along, the people around me gradually left. Fighting is no longer a collective carnival, it can only seek a moment of support and solace in friendship in the gap of loneliness and struggle. And love is a powerful hallucinogen, appearing in an unreasonable form, briefly intoxicated, and overwhelmed by our temporary escape from reality.
This movie disappointed me and moved me, and it brought tears to my eyes at the end.
Simplify the complicated and simple, the long depression, 2 hours later, the climax came slowly, but stopped abruptly. It was cold, dull and treacherous, and my unreasonable playing cards greatly aroused my nerves.
After thinking about it for a few days or if I have forgotten the vague plot, I will always remember that when Leng Ji wanted to leave the theater, he walked to the door, and when he turned around, Dumbledore was standing in the dark night, with his clothes flying. As if a sudden hug squeezed my chest tightly, a hand grabbed my neck from behind, the blood that was ice-cold to the extreme boiled instantly, and tears spewed out. High from the beginning to the end is another story.
1. Tonal
gray and white empty snow, chilling and cold. Katie Bell, dressed in red, hung in the air, her neck twisted aside, and she fell heavily on the snow. The visual taste of this scene is very heavy.
This subsection alone shows that the film series has done just that, changed sex.
The terrifying momentum is fierce and rough, and the lack of warm and delicate details jumps in between. There are no golden and bright baroque tones, no gorgeous and fantastic magic techniques, no jumping emotions, no lively and noisy group play, no young and frivolous juvenile spirit, no big scenes of bloody battles, and even Quidditch is rare. The pen, cools in the haze of the snow.
This is a gothic, thrilling, treacherous, and sentimental prose poem that is overly shrunk.
2. The structure
is based on suspense, but it feels that the clues have never been mentioned. Cut off too many branches of the original work, and the plot is not very smooth. Non-book fans sometimes may not understand everything.
The director puts almost all of his strength on the low pressure that is brewing before the storm comes. She has been choking the audience's neck, and occasionally letting go makes you take a breath and can't breathe. Conspiracy, emotion, suspense, flashbacks and multiple clues are parallel, but there is no distinction between tonality and rhythm, and a pot of dumplings becomes a puddle.
There are many and slow close-ups of characters, dialogues, panning, which is commonly used in horror films, and out of focus, which has a kind of rambling connotation.
Overly repressed and sad emotions pervaded uncontrollably. When I thought that after a long period of enduring, I finally had a happy explosion, I found that the film was over, a full two and a half hours of opening. The main course will have to wait two years before being served. But I didn't have the urge to curse in the movie theater after watching "On the Red Cliff" at all.
I like to be emotionally manipulated and abused by movies. I personally like the dark and oppressive tone and tension, but I always feel less Harry Potter.
3.
The IMAX version of the technical watch, I watched it for ten minutes with 3D glasses on, and I didn't feel much excitement. After all, there are "Transformers 2" and "Ice Age 3" pearls ahead. The long shot of the Death Eaters dragging thick black smoke from the sky and twisting London's Millennium Bridge into a twist is the first and the most intense visual tipping point of the scene and rhythm.
In the film, the magic skills are displayed and confronted, and the scenes such as group fights have been weakened. Do you want to return to the Muggle world?
Harry read Voldemort's memories with exquisite small glass bottles, in which the thick black liquid was poured into the water and dispersed, quite like an ink painting.
It can be seen that the Quidditch game has made technical improvements in space, but the sound effects, the deserted scenes and the weak details of the story make the effect of the technical update not obvious.
When Dumbledore died, there should have been a group battle between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix in the tower, and in the film, Malfoy, who was several orders of magnitude lower than he did not know, waved his magic wand to "disarm", and Snape again With a wave of "Avada Suo Ming", the grandfather died, and everything ended silently. The director probably wanted to suppress all the wonderful group dramas to the seventh part to explode together.
4.
The climax of the film appeared at about an hour and fifty minutes. Dumbledore used the method of Displacement to bring Harry to a cave. The two stood on the reef in the water, the camera turned low and the wind swept the waves. I was tumbling on my side, the music started to pick up, and after nearly two hours of dullness, such wanton romance pierced my chest.
Harry fed him a spoonful of poisonous potions. Dumbledore slumped on the ground and lost his mind and control. At the last sip, a bunch of white flowers suddenly hit his face. His expression was too old to bear to see. Weak, powerless, the sense of fate that life perishes.
Take away the fake Horcrux, and all of a sudden, there are a lot of super scary living corpses pouring out of the water, and that scene is too B-grade. Harry was dragged into the water and struggled desperately, and suddenly he looked up from the water and saw a circle of orange fire on the water, driving away all the living dead. The camera drills out of the water, pushes it up and looks up, under the entire black sky, the ice color, on the gray-white reef, Dumbledore's white hair and white beard, white robe, standing in the wind, stalwart and determined, tightly hugging the short shoulder of Harry, The magic wand waved an arc in front of him, "Vulcan open the way!" A flame wall of two or three meters high was laid out on the water. The warm fire color is as gorgeous as burning life in the haze of cold tones of the whole picture.
The music was just right, the romance was at its extreme, my tears were gushing out, my throat was sweet, my chest was tight, and I cried out in the emotion that was almost suffocating. Suddenly thought of my grandfather and grandfather. There is nothing more exciting than a dying old man trying his best to guard a child, not to mention his beard and hair fluttering against the wind, exuding magical aura.
The grand funeral scene in the book is gone. When the teachers and students of the school found Dumbledore's body falling from the building, they wept silently, and then everyone slowly raised their magic wands to disperse the skull cloud and light up the night sky. The director has an overly cautious temperance in his emotions, which stagnated the sadness for a long time.
5. The
characters are drawn in thick lines, and the characters and events are not harmonious, which makes the characters isolated, and the characters and the plot are also isolated.
Dumbledore is the absolute protagonist. Excuse me. The personality and ability have reached the realm of God, and the magic power has also been displayed to the extreme. The only weakness is old age. The film mentions his age many times, but as far as I feel, Dumbledore definitely has the ability to go through life and death.
Dumbledore is dead. When Snape waved his wand at him he said "please~~" the "please" was definitely not a plea for mercy, it was "please, do what you're supposed to do." So I thought, the rest The heavy responsibility should all be on Snape's body. Uncle Snape is the uncle I liked very much from the first movie, and his maverick and arrogance reaches the extreme. There is always a kind of depressive temperament hidden between the eyebrows. This person is definitely not a bad person.
However, he made the stage name of the Half-Blood Prince on the title, and his role did not increase, nor did he have any strong mainline performance. The suspense of Half-Blood Prince didn't hold up at all. In the end, I concluded that this film is the title party.
Harry also had no major role and confrontation, and was completely reduced to a cowardly terrified overwhelmed supporting role. Even in love scenes. In addition to following Malfoy, he was ordered to approach Professor Slughorn, a scholar, deliberately like some graduates in today's society who are unscrupulous in approaching their mentors.
Harry was doing the right thing, but doing things in a style that went against his candid personality. He has always been, knowing that it cannot be done. Even if you know that abandoning the car and keeping the commander at a critical moment is the best strategy in the military, he would rather burn all the jade and never give up any of his companions. However, in this episode, he follows Dumbledore's orders to give him poison, and even stares down the stairs when the Death Eaters besiege Dumbledore, completely losing his personality. (In the book it is clear that he was wearing an invisibility cloak and was immobilized by Dumbledore, and had to watch him die)
What does the screenwriter want? Is the harvest of growth is to know how to choose? ? ? even life?
The love scene is very jerky, and there are still hundreds of thousands of miles between the first kiss and love that happened in a hurry. The love clue instead highlights the blue-eyed acquaintance between Harry and Hermione. When Hermione sat sadly on the stone steps of a gloomy street, with a few grey birds hovering above her head, flapping their wings, the scene was so sentimental and romantic that Harry leaned over his shoulder and made her lean against him.
Compared with Ron and Hermione's stupid, half-baked teenage feelings, Hermione and Harry have a deeper trust, appreciation, competition, distress, understanding and sympathy. I've always wondered why Harry and Hermione weren't a couple. At this moment, I know that the intersection of their souls is too deep, and they have already passed through the situation of love. With each other, they are too transparent, too understanding, too sober, and how can they get carried away.
And Hermione was brilliant, she wanted everything she wanted. Facing Harry, she would voluntarily back down, and Ron could really let her down, be sad, and be petty. Love cannot be too pure and pure, it comes from possession.
I don't like Malfoy. However, the actor did a good job. He showed Malfoy's inner grief and arrogance to avenge his father, the fear, anxiety, pretense of being chosen by Voldemort, and the complex emotions that were not completely conscientious. Shows how difficult it is for a little villain to become a big villain. A self-righteous, arrogant kid who suddenly and literally shoulders the family's reputation, responsibility, and hides extreme anxiety with manic conceit, he is the saddest character in this episode.
Little Voldemort had a stunning face, reminiscent of the Nazi temperament of a grown-up Voldemort Ralph Fiennes' officer in Schindler's List. The pale and cold lines, the plausible corners of the mouth, the soul-catching eyes, and the extremely calm and restrained rational face burns with madness from hell.
Ron and Luna were outstanding. Ron's nympho, Luna's lost soul, and a hot and cold sense of humor, at least adorned the dull atmosphere.
Helena Bonham Carter shouldn't be in this movie, even though she's one of my favorite actresses, she's got a strong on-screen image, goth looks, and she's overly exaggerated to steal the show. As soon as Bella appeared on the stage, the play was robbed. It wasn't that the performance was bad, but that such a famous actor with a distinctive personality and iconic face was too easy to take the audience out of the play.
At the beginning of the film, the whole auditorium broke out with warm applause and cheers, and this happy emotion touched me. However, when the movie ends, everyone faints.
In this film that has lost too many details, is procrastinating, and the plot is not very coherent and occasionally out of focus, photography, art and music have created a very alternative atmosphere, with a rhythm of its own. .
It may have lost many of the mature hallmarks of the Harry Potter series, but it has its own personality and depth, so I still don't know whether to scold it or praise it.
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