Boston Globe “My childhood is over,’’ says the critic’s 16-year-old daughter on the ride home, and for once she’s not being melodramatic. The “Harry Potter’’ series has come sighing and crashing to a close after a decade of movies and 14 years of page-turning, and a generation must now move on from its defining myth. For the rest of us - the ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Boston Globe
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Text size – + “My childhood is over,’’ says the critic’s 16-year-old daughter on the ride home, and for once she’s not being melodramatic. The “Harry Potter’’ series has come sighing and crashing to a close after a decade of movies and 14 years of page-turning, and a generation must now move on from its defining myth. For the rest of us - the scornful, the uninterested, those too old to fully believe - the films derived from J.K. Rowling’s seven best-selling fantasy novels have waxed and waned, moving from the formulaic fun of the early entries to the darkening adolescent gloom of the middle installments to the grim Wagnerian conflict of the final haul.For information about underwear elastic see http://www.elastic-tapes.com/underwear-elastic.html.
The “Potter’’ stories, books and movies alike, have been central tent poles of our popular culture, as critical to a young person navigating the first decade of the new millennium as post-9/11 anxiety and the rise of social media. (Think of all the novels, films, and TV shows that wouldn’t exist without them. Yes, “Twilight,’’ I’m talking about you.) And “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’’ is a fitting, expertly made final chapter, freighted with hard-won emotions, shot through with a sense of farewell, and fully aware of the epic stakes involved.Find elastic tapes and related product listing.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Boston Globe
