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Harry Potter系列的最后一集已经在中国大陆上映了，这部伴随着很多孩子成长的电影系列也即将完结。在英国有很多人对Harry Potter系列做了很多的分析和反思，它们质疑Harry Potter的精髓随着时间而流失了，那是不是这样呢?

Harry Potter

My Harry Potter specialist, 13, really enjoyed thisfilm. It is, she reckons, at least as good as any ofthe ones that have gone bore. The main actors stilllook the right ages for their parts and the specialfects are great. It is darker and more scary thanthe other films, but then the sixth one was quitedark and they've all been getting more and more that way.

She didn't find it in the least bit slow (although it's two hours 26 minutes long) and shethought the decision to film this final instalment in two parts was the right one because thebook is such a whopper it would have been a six-hour film otherwise. In fact, her only realcriticism was that, even at this length, they had to cut some scenes from the book ?forexample, Harry's birthday, and any explanation of why Bellatrix Lestrange thought Gryffindor'ssword had been stolen from her vault at Gringotts.

On the other hand, a few incidents that are not in the book have been added to the film,she noticed, and some of these worked really well ?such as a spooky scene when passingSnatchers are able to detect Hermione by her perfume, though they cannot see her, and shestands still until they give up and go away. The deaths of Dobby the house-elf and Harry'ssnowy owl Hedwig were very sad, she thought, while the stand-out performance among theother characters was dinitely that of Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix.

So if you like the Harry Potter books and films, you won't be disappointed by Harry PotterAnd The Deathly Hallows Part 1. And that's all you really need to know. In many ways, evenbore you've seen it, you'll already have a better idea of it than a non-Harry Potter fan who hasseen it can. So please consider the rest of this review as an optional extra ?probably best notbothered with at all, if you're potty about Potter. Farewell. Enjoy!

I sincerely wanted to enjoy the film too and be caught up by it. For even reviewers ?human, after all, however dectively ?hope to be entertained. But I wasn't entertained and Ididn't enjoy it. I found it mind-numbingly boring from beginning to end.

Partly, no doubt, this was because I simply don't have the deep background in Potterstudies necessary to understand lots of what's going on.

Near the start of the film, after his friends have taken Polyjuice Potion, the real Harry andsix duplicates fly through the sky, from Privet Drive to the safe house at the Burrow, assailed allthe way by Death Eaters and Voldemort himself. To me, this combat seemed to be conductedwith random fireworks. In fact, these bangers were Killing Curses from the one side andStunning Spells from the other, presumably clearly distinguishable to the initiated.

Then again, Harry, Hermione and Ron's main mission in this part of the saga is to find anddestroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes ?Don't let me commence, as Truman Capote used tosay. Being a grown-up and then some, my capacity for interesting myself in imaginary arcanawas exhausted long ago. There is so much more good stuff in the real world ?Brahms,euphorbias, Leopardi ?to find out about than one will ever have time for that it seems folly towaste any part of one's remaining span genning up on this cack. If you don't mind me sayingso.

Leaving this little difficulty aside, it's still not a good film. The three leads ? none of them,incidentally, anything like as cute as he or she was when they started, providing a little studyin the difficulty of predicting the development of looks, what with chins being so forthright,noses so persistent ?can barely act at all, despite having had years of practice. The daultposition here is for one of them to be delivering a speech while the other two stand aroundfrozen to the spot with stricken faces. They never plausibly interact. The huge cast ofsupporting actors rarely rise to the level of decent panto either, with the exception of BonhamCarter, who gives her wicked witch some welly at least. It's perhaps most sympatheticallyapproached as some kind of pageant, rather than a drama.

For this narrative has no internal logic, no dynamism. The plot doesn't build ?it's justone damned thing after another. Of course, the way they can just Disapparate when in a tightcorner doesn't help. But, even so, this film seems to consist mainly of our heroes moping in atent, or just outside a tent, in first this bit of countryside, then that bit of countryside, forreasons that never become quite clear.

Scene after scene is shamelessly padded, whether by Rowling herself or the film-makers,or both working faithfully together. So this was Harry Potter And The Deathly Longueurs forme. Harmless delight for millions, though, I know. Some of them quite big.