Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! Its a pity the movie is named the same. There was almost nothing in it of the book...Disappointing is an understatement.
The part of the book I'd liked the most was not there in the movie at all! The story of Tom Riddle's loony mother and muggle-born father. How his father was bewitched by a love potion, and how the family heirloom was taken by Tom Riddle which would later become a Horcrux and contain a part of his soul...
The book has a brilliant yet dark concept. A rare form of magic that allows one to be immortal in parts! For that the being must rip the soul and contain it elsewhere like a locket or a ring. Although things like these come at a cost is what the author tries to tell us. And the price is the life of another. Really how dreadful can a person get to fulfill personal wishes...
I wondered how the author must have thought of such a thing. Must she have seen it in a metaphorical form somewhere? Forms which take away lives for their personal interest. They kill happiness, love, care, joy, oneness, peace. Once dead, they contain their own righteousness, hatred, selfishness, jealousy, anger in these empty shells. And that's how 'no possibility' becomes immortal!
The fact that Harry Potter destroys all those horcruxes is reassuring for a person like me. Because I personally like happy endings. And also gives me the thought that 'no-possibility' needs to be destroyed.... by the very things that were killed by it!
I havent seen the movie yet nor read the book :( I guess I'll get the book from the library now instead of going for the movie. I wonder why movies based on books are most of the times disappointing for the reader. I felt the same way about 'Namesake'. The only movies that I liked and did some justice to the book are 'Godfather' and 'The Kite-Runner'...I love the way the kite flys in the 2nd one, the shots are well taken.
ReplyDeleteComing back to Harry Potter, its been a long time since I read any of those books...I should catch up with those soon. Reading Harry Potter makes me wonder too how the author must've thought of such a thing and if she had seen it in a metaphorical form in real life. There was a mirror in their school which reflected what one craves to see or experience in real life, Harry sees his parents and the principal has to come and take him away from it as he cant stop seeing it. He tells harry later that the mirror causes people to comit suicide or lands them into depression and death as it takes them away from reality....something like that! This had made me wonder if we all have a mirror like that inside us in which we can see what we want to see, a world of 'fantasy' and we cant afford to get lost in it, cause its far from reality.
..Trust me..ur world of fantasy can become a reality...provided u want it to.
ReplyDeleteWhoever thought man would be able to fly and go to another place a thousand years ago? For them it would have definitely been a fantasy :))