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day before yesterday i went out in the snow to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (how's that for a long title?) ~ it was an emotional experience for some reason. not because of the movie itself, i don't think. i mean, i liked the film and thought it was well-cobbled and the animation was good despite my horror of cgi. i felt like the director at least tried to put in a good mix of live-action stuff (like making the top half of the centaurs real people instead of just cgi'ing the whole blamed thing). i had read a review that said the kid actors were poor, but i disagree ~ i thought they were actually quite charming and not obnoxious or overly sentimental. there wasn't a ton of crying and wind teasing in their hair (in fact more often than not, their hair was rather dirty and stringy-looking, which was refreshing). Aslan, of course, was magnificent and Liam Neeson gave him just the right dignity (almost good enough to be Sean Connery, who was the logical choice).
anyway, i found the opening of the film, when the mother puts the kids on the train to be very upsetting. once i recovered from that, the Witch wasn't so skeery (though that last battle with her on the polar bear chariot was pretty cool). overall i had a good time.
people have made much of the "Christian" themes in this story and i guess, sure, they're there for the poking at with a stick if you want to. but i think that's true of just about any story (written by a Christian or not) ~ God is in all things, after all ~ and the fabric of the story of man's salvation through Christ is eternally woven into all of man's tales in one form or another since the beginning of time. show me a story in which that is not true and i'll show you a story that has nothing to say. it may not be as overt as Narnia, but it'll be there nonetheless.
nitpicks: they shoulda beaten Aslan up more. i wanted more pathos in that moment that just didn't happen. i recall as a child that part of the story made me cry the hardest and here i just didn't "feel" it as much as i feel like i should have. the other thing (and this is a fault of the story, not necessarily of the film), it always bothered me that the kids weren't more concerned about getting home. especially at the end when they have been in Narnia into their adulthood ~ yu can't put them on a train like that in such an emotional scene and then cheat us of a reunion. this is where i think they should have taken creative lisence and brought the story around full circle. really.
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in other news, i am officially a Catholic geek, sad to say. i realized last week that i now live in the hometown of Leaflet Missal <~ and today i am going Christmas shopping in their 5000 square-foot Store ~ can i get an oy vey?
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day before yesterday i went out in the snow to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (how's that for a long title?) ~ it was an emotional experience for some reason. not because of the movie itself, i don't think. i mean, i liked the film and thought it was well-cobbled and the animation was good despite my horror of cgi. i felt like the director at least tried to put in a good mix of live-action stuff (like making the top half of the centaurs real people instead of just cgi'ing the whole blamed thing). i had read a review that said the kid actors were poor, but i disagree ~ i thought they were actually quite charming and not obnoxious or overly sentimental. there wasn't a ton of crying and wind teasing in their hair (in fact more often than not, their hair was rather dirty and stringy-looking, which was refreshing). Aslan, of course, was magnificent and Liam Neeson gave him just the right dignity (almost good enough to be Sean Connery, who was the logical choice).
anyway, i found the opening of the film, when the mother puts the kids on the train to be very upsetting. once i recovered from that, the Witch wasn't so skeery (though that last battle with her on the polar bear chariot was pretty cool). overall i had a good time.
people have made much of the "Christian" themes in this story and i guess, sure, they're there for the poking at with a stick if you want to. but i think that's true of just about any story (written by a Christian or not) ~ God is in all things, after all ~ and the fabric of the story of man's salvation through Christ is eternally woven into all of man's tales in one form or another since the beginning of time. show me a story in which that is not true and i'll show you a story that has nothing to say. it may not be as overt as Narnia, but it'll be there nonetheless.
nitpicks: they shoulda beaten Aslan up more. i wanted more pathos in that moment that just didn't happen. i recall as a child that part of the story made me cry the hardest and here i just didn't "feel" it as much as i feel like i should have. the other thing (and this is a fault of the story, not necessarily of the film), it always bothered me that the kids weren't more concerned about getting home. especially at the end when they have been in Narnia into their adulthood ~ yu can't put them on a train like that in such an emotional scene and then cheat us of a reunion. this is where i think they should have taken creative lisence and brought the story around full circle. really.
~ * ~
in other news, i am officially a Catholic geek, sad to say. i realized last week that i now live in the hometown of Leaflet Missal <~ and today i am going Christmas shopping in their 5000 square-foot Store ~ can i get an oy vey?
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