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movie review - Tales of Earthsea

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.12.07

This is a (very rough) adaptation of Ursula K Leguin's novels that spanned decades of the world of Earthsea (as well as taking decades to write). Unfortunately, the story appears to stitch together a number of concepts from those novels in a loose form that doesn't really add up. I have to admit, I didn't realize that I was watching the story that I was actually seeing until the thing ended, and when it dawned on me I wasn't delighted with the result.

Not recommended.

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The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Richard Feynman