As I said on Monday, me and Lyn went to see the new harry potter film on Monday. I suppose that, being a film student and all, I should write something about it. The thing is, deciding how to write this. having read the book, I, like most of us, know the plot, so found it reasonably easy to follow. Yet Lyn, who was unfamiliar with the text, said she found it a bit hard to follow. Having said that, it wasn’t the most faithful of adaptations, famously detracting from it at the denouement. However, truth be told, I wasn’t concentrating on the plot, for the shooting style caught my eye the most. It is magnificently shot, with every frame composed with precision. A real sense of doom came through the mise-en-scene. In fact, I do not think this was a kids film, and why children were allowed in – children who didn’t shut up throughout the screening – gets me. If I was prime minister, nobody under 15 would be allowed to the cinema.

SPOILERS

Now, as for the so-called unfortunate event: the death of Dumbledore and snape’s shhh gesture. In my opinion, Harry was being a good student in trusting snape, and

I think snape was saving Harry’s bacon by keeping him quiet. As for why the scen=e was changed, I’m not sure, but I think it may be concerned with duty, loyalty. I need to rewatch it anyway/