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movie review - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

The kids have been watching the "Harry Potter" movies without me because I watched them all once years ago and refused to do so again. But now we're covering films I haven't seen so I rejoined.

I'm more-or-less starting from scratch, so I am all but coming at this from the point of view of a new-comer. And so it I have to report that I didn't follow the logic of this thing entirely but I found it to be a worthy successor to the one other of these stories that I actually liked (which was the fifth, I suspect). I feel that if you're going to watch these films you can start with this. The story is on the slow side but for once this gives you an opportunity to grasp some of the many inter-chracter relationships and nuance. Yes, there are some unexplainable character actions but that happens constantly in these movies -- something you can get around by simply acknowledging you haven't read the source material. Things don't go well for our heroes but with all of the political and other tactical work that's been done against them that is fitting.

Recommended.