While all the pointy-headed liberal elites are off at the flim festival, we got to watch the new Harry Potter. It was good! I liked it!
\nI think what I like best is that it just doesn’t care. “Chum,” it says, “I’m adapting book 6 of a gigantically successful 7-book series. I don’t need things like ‘narrative’ and ‘causality’. All I need is those kids and a selection of the most impressive British actors I can find and then I can bloody well do what I like with them!”
\nThe film is almost incomprehensible on its own terms, but for the initiated it’s great. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I particularly enjoyed Jessie Cave’s Lavender Brown, whose completely over the top scenery-chewing, in the hyper-real world of these books, curled all the way around again to start ringing true.
\nAlso great: every visual gag involving Luna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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