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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Last night my wife and I finally got around to seeing this. It's good. I find that I don't really need to modify anything I said last year in a post about Part 1, or back in 2007 after I'd finished reading the book.

Moreover, we're planning to go see The Tree of Life Monday night. This amount of theater-going is unheard of in the Horton household.

It's pretty amazing that the three main Potter characters were selected for their roles when they were still children, and have developed so well with their characters–I mean, they are as convincing in their near-adulthood as they were as ten-year-olds.  That was a pretty big gamble on the part of the film-makers. Also, none of them seems to have gone off the rails as a result of their celebrity, and apparently they're friends. I do wish Emma Watson would eat a little more. She is a wonderful screen presence, but I find it hard to believe that this hipless look is entirely natural to her, or to most of the many young women one sees these days who look that way. I notice I said the same in 2007.

Maclin Horton
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5 responses to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”

  1. Louise

    Yes, young Emma… she needs fattening up! (This is the maternal instinct in me).
    I enjoyed HP8

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  2. Mac

    On the way home my wife and I were talking about the movie. I said “Emma Watson is great, but I wish she would…” and then hesitated for a moment, and my wife finished the sentence with “drink a milkshake?”
    I’m not sure why this bothers me so much. Partly because it seems to lead too many young women to health problems (mental and physical). In this country we seem to have only the extremes–really overweight and obsessively (at best) underweight.

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  3. Louise

    In this country we seem to have only the extremes–really overweight and obsessively (at best) underweight.
    Yes, and there’s something just not right about that, is there? When I was growing up, there were morbidly obese people, but not many and skeletal people, but not many. Everyone else was a bit fat, normal, or a bit slender. Now, the spectrum is either missing, or just unseen?

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  4. Louise

    It bothers me for much the same reason that the “streetwalker” fashions bother me – it seems to miss the point that while men may be physically attracted to certain types of female figures, a man only marries a woman b/c he has a deep heart connection with her and that has considerably less to do with appearance, so it’s just not in women’s best interest to focus on the lies about physical appearance.

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  5. Mac

    There’s only so much you can do about that, because concern with female beauty is pretty strong and deep in both sexes, and I guess the ideal is always out of reach of most, but this seems worse because it’s potentially so harmful, physically & mentally.

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