This is not the Narnia I know

Roel 2022-04-22 07:01:17

I only recently started to make up the Narnia series. I watched the first two films and liked them very much, but I felt an inexplicable sense of disappointment at the beginning of the third film, so I wanted to write a film review. Whenever I feel like a movie isn't quite as good, I search for reviews to fill in the holes. I searched for film reviews and found that many people said "this is a fairy tale for children", I began to feel fortunate that I was still a "child" and could watch such a (the first two) beautiful films with a pure mentality that I had never experienced. A beautiful fairy tale. Talking animals, lions that come back from the dead, swords and longbows that I'm obsessed with, and strange creatures, another wonderful world that can be entered by accident, a world where time can stop forever. Even in the second part, Susan and Peter left after "learning what they need in this world", and I'm still immersed in the beauty of them letting it all go and a year in England, and Narnia is a hundred years of sorrow among. It can be said that my child's pure heart is ready to see Caspian in the next film. The world shown to me in the first two films really made me happy for a long time in my busy study life. Knowing that there is such a world, knowing how relieved it is to leave such a world, is enough—
until I finished watching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader tonight.

Of course, I haven't read novels, and I've only read one or two of them recently, so I'm not that "familiar", but at least I don't know anything about the story -- because I haven't read a lot of films, I think one The second and second films have already explained the story very clearly - at least some understanding of the time relationship between Narnia and the United Kingdom, so when I saw Caspian in the third film, the whole person was stunned, and my inexplicable disappointment was that It started from this chaotic time relationship, although it was inevitable that it was a bit tricky, and then I comforted myself while watching it. It must be that the movie did not explain it clearly, and there must be something in the novel.
The second is the scenes that are switched too fast. There is a feeling of rushing to finish the story. Humans in the film dress more and more casually, and it seems that there are some too close to modern scenes that were not found in the first two films. Objects (I like to get to the bottom of these details, maybe because of my absolute rigor for such a beautiful world).

Also, the story doesn't seem to be finished yet. The smile of the old professor in the first part and the lion's roar coming from the closet behind are a happy ending that fills you with reverie. Leaving Narnia and returning to the real world, Caspian becoming king, including the departure of Susan and Peter, Edmund's flashlight in Narnia, is also a complete ending. The beginning and end of the third part are not clearly explained. , even if you can guess the ending, it is better than nothing. (Weakly complained that the prelude of the third part is not long enough, and the emotion has not yet been brewed. It is still a scene on the streets of the United Kingdom, and Narnia's logo is typed. The second part is the logo made by Caspian and the chasers when they were running on the wasteland before dawn. The perspective is much wider.)

The third part added a little cousin (I just can't remember the name), I I don't think it's too repulsive. After all, there is one more person to share the secrets of Narnia, but I really haven't seen Susan and Peter who left in the second part appear in Narnia. It's really empty, so I again While watching, I comfort myself, this is not the fault of the movie, it is the need for the development of the plot, so on and so forth. I really love and like the scene of the dragon and the mouse. It makes me feel a pity that I was so focused on watching the cute mouse and not paying much attention to the film itself. In the end, the fierce battle with the sea monster, although it was wonderful, was right, but it always felt that it did not match the style of the first two wars with golden horses and long horns. Even the owner of the invisible castle showed them the map. The images of the centaurs blowing the horn and the army charging flashed past, and I began to wonder if this was a series of movies (of course full of deep nostalgia...). The picture of the third part gave me the impression that it was dark overall, not as beautiful and healing as the first and second parts, and I couldn't even feel the beauty of this another journey. And armor, armor, from the first bright red with a yellow lion printed on it, to the third I don't know what kind of armor... (I admit I'm too sensitive on these details)

But after the last sea of ​​white flowers and the waves of Aslan, the kingdom on the looming mountains, and the last goodbyes with Lucy and Edmund like their older brothers and sisters, finally pulled me out of my trance. After entering my Narnia, I was shocked and moved by a moment of peace after the fierce battle. Susan and Peter have never come back, and Lucy and Edmund will never come back. It seems that all these stories will continue from the cousin until he also grows up... I don't know the story in the novel. The plot is what it looks like from the movie. I will eventually grow up like them and accept the reality without fantasies, but at least give me a story that I can continue to fantasize about!
The era of Peter the High King, the era of the four kings and queens, seems to be no more, and this is the Narnia in my first impression.
This is not my Narnia.

But still hope that the fourth part will have a better story. I really wish I hadn't seen this one - since I have, let my eyes stay on that sea of ​​flowers forever. Seeing the mouse rowing a boat into Aslan's kingdom, I somehow thought of the seventh book of Harry Potter, and Old Deng said to Harry, "Didn't you say this is King's Cross Station, you can board a train. "There is only this episode, I really feel the sacred beauty of Narnia that I felt everywhere in the first or second film.

Alas, the first film review is somewhat jerky, please bear with me.

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Extended Reading
  • Chaz 2021-11-28 08:01:17

    Sister PL doesn't like to eat popcorn and Shuangji burgers but likes to look at handsome guys with few clothes. It's not easy for everyone to mix together. Adults have restrained themselves from turning into centipede snakes without turning their minds into centipede.

  • Adella 2021-11-28 08:01:17

    The story lacks a sense of ups and downs, and is not attractive enough to enter the scene. Some scenes are not bad. I don't know what it is expressing as a whole. It is a very ordinary film that I watched muddledly.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader quotes

  • Lilliandil: [Caspian, Edmund, and Lucy look up into the sky as a brilliant blue light descends upon them]

    Lucy Pevensie: Look!

    [the light transforms into Lilliandril]

    Lilliandil: Travelers of Narnia, I am your guide.

    King Caspian: You are most beautiful.

    Lilliandil: If it is a distraction for you, I-I can change forms.

    Edmund PevensieKing Caspian: Noo!

    [Caspian and Edmund look at each other. Lucy looks at them and rolls her eyes]

  • [first lines]

    Intake Officer: Are you sure you're eighteen?

    Edmund Pevensie: Why? Do I look older?