By William Markiewicz
The early Harry Potter movies had the character of crisp gothic Nordic legends. The setting of foggy landscapes, bare rocks, castles, dark forests was ideally suited to the struggles of superheroes accompanied by their apprentices. This Nordic character could have drawn Nazis to use them in their rallies just as, for instance, they play Wagner. Is a Nazi revival possible? Perhaps, but to fight those trends one has to use intelligence instead of looking for a solution in simplistic commercialism.
The newest Harry Potter has practically broken with its ancient gothic roots. The story is mediocre with its bureaucratic "Ministry of Magic." Magic has fairytale, mystical roots that can't be mixed with a bureaucracy that has an "official Inquisitor" at its head. It's normal that, unlike the previous episodes, Blacks are given high positions -- after all the action takes place in our modern times. But it's absolutely abnormal when Harry Potter suddenly starts kissing an Asian girl without any preliminary romance and shortly after he says 'excuse me' and disappears. What was the goal of this artificial disconnected scene? Political correctness or an attempt to attract Asian moviegoers? Anyway it was pandering, nothing to do with art. There was also an insertion of monstrous characters that added nothing to the theme .Again, to cede to the crowd's infantilism at the expense of any poetic cohesion eliminates the work of art and kills the movie from the start.
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