It Begins where it Ends

Cinema | August 22, 2011 | Share

When I first saw all those millions of people lined up in rain with umbrellas at the theater for the UK premiere, I was devastated. It is ending. I thought hollowly. Hermione…I mean Emma Watson cried, J K Rowling cried and I bawled while rubbing snotty tears on my shirt sleeve. My Mom didn’t get it as usual. But even she understood enough, “this is the last part?” she asked incredulously like a child grappling with Santa Clause reality. She wanted to know. I didn’t explain. Because I was busy replaying the video. Then I went aside to compose myself and came back to IM my Potter-crazy best friend.

I didn’t read the first HP book until I saw the movie. So Daniel Radcliffe is the only Harry I know, and even though most popular books don’t usually have great movie-adaptations, it’s always nice to sit back and watch the little guys and other people in the wizard world act their parts to perfection. Having said that, Deathly Hallows-2 didn’t quite satiate the already weeping fan in me.

Sure it had all the 3D-action, great performances (I’m looking at you Alan Snape Rickman), memorable dialogues (Prof. Mc Gonagall), wonderful cinematography but I couldn’t take in the fact that important deaths were not given weight. Heck they weren’t shown at all, if you take Fred’s, Lupin’s and Tonks’. I don’t know about you, but for me Fred, the evil twin is one of the Top 5 interesting characters in whole of the HP series. Not just me, there must be millions who hated not to have found Fred die properly in the movie, his death deserved to be given at least a minute, and so do Lupin’s and Tonk’s.

Tell me guys the most powerful wizard, the menacing, murderous fascist-Voldemort, who killed hundreds without batting an eyelid, is himself killed by The Boy Who Lived and the wizards don’t even celebrate? For reasons David Yates hasn’t yet notified me, the wizard world calmly accepted that ‘Good always triumphs over evil’ and went back to their lives. What a drab bunch of idiots, I say!

Ah, well the rant ends. I can’t stay angry at someone I love for long, you see. So with the first part of Deathly Hallows laying a solid premise, part 2 was definitely entertaining in all the 3D awesomeness! Voldemort’s slow deterioration each destruction of each Horcrux, with Neville’s fight in Hogwarts and its subsequent ruin, Harry’s painful realization of Snape’s actual intentions through Pensieve, the epic duel between Harry Potter and Voldemort are all wonderfully depicted in all their magic splendor. Hermione and Ron had their much-awaited little moment to the joy of many. But the dénouement-nineteen years into the future, for me, takes the cake. The little father-son moment of Harry with his son was so perfectly done. I couldn’t help being all Leaky Couldron when the end-credits started rolling. Of course I’ll watch it again. Because that’s what Harry Potter fans do: we read, we rant, but we watch the movie again. To the Harry Potter Fans, lets look forward to Pottermore!!

Nandana S Nallapu