Swow, magicians and fascism

“Fantastic creatures: crimes of Green de Wald”-the second part of the saga Joan Rowling was released (carefully, spoilers)

At the entrance to the IMAX hall - attraction cinema should be watched in the appropriate projection - I met a friend from the film Route company: he says, you need to watch a movie that will tear the cashier. The cunning Rowling, having raised more than one generation in her Harripotter universe, took up the fantastic education and mobilization of new fans. It seems to be seriously and for a long time. There are five films in the new franchise. Work is already boiling over the third chapter.

Director of producers Warner Bros. David Yates, who shot four Potter and one Tarzan, was again called. The action takes place in New York 70 years before the boy with a scar from the platform 9 and 3/4 went to the Magic School. Those who believe that Rowling compose a prequel to Potterian are mistaken. No, she is systematically and sequentially trying to build and expand her universe. I won’t be surprised if sooner or later this universe with wizards, magicians and super -powerful villains will absorb our dreary reality. And entire generations emigrate into the parallel world of fantasy under the wing of the Phoenix Order.

In the lining of the “magic menagerie”, Rowling is the Old French Bestiarias, as well as the “Book of fictional creatures” of Borges, in which nature turns into the arena of the struggle of good and evil forces. But the writer and screenwriter Joan Rowling in her new magical voyage does not intend to delve into the gloomy medieval arches, finding a dangerous connection between the bodily and spiritual world, science and theology, pagan deities, God -man and fantastic creatures. In the new myth, not only biblical and Getevsky motifs are sounded, but also political references, sometimes too straightforward.

The twenties. Europe. In the center of the vortex -shaped plot, the salamander, a scientist of a magozoologist who describes and saving from the evil magic magic animals again. The same Botan Salamander, who wrote Potter's favorite textbook.

His bizarre creatures, who had once fled from a suitcase and aroused New York, are safe: they are well-groomed and caressed in his spacious house. But the Newt itself will again be at the very tip of the conflict between wizards and nemags.

With the first scene that is exciting and naughty to the chair-the escape from the gloomy prison of the outstanding villain and wizard Green de Vald-the viewer draws into the funnel of dizzying, in the literal sense of the word, indescribable events.

Green de-Wald, a whitish disgusting villain in the embodiment of Johnny Depp-an irresistible, disgusting and charismatic leader-gathers supporters in Paris. His goal is

Prove the superiority of wizards over ordinary people. In fact, this is a fascist doctrine of the superiority of the highest race on the lower.

The people of Green de Wald “cleanse” for him one of the luxurious Parisian apartments, killing even a child. It was then that he says: "It is not necessary to destroy everyone, but we will need a servant." Green de-Wald-Fuhrer of the New Age, he does not beat in hysteria, does not scream. He is quiet and calm, he convinces. For a crowd of doubts, whom the wizard calls “brothers and sisters”, finds the only true words: freedom, trust, brotherhood. During his speech at the stadium, he simply paints the terrible paintings of the war and the apocalypse, which is already nearby, at the distance of an outstretched arm. He urges everyone to choose on whose side he is. Why is Green de Vald a magic wand? He found another way to rule over the world - share!

The authors of the second volume of “fantastic creatures” create a magic brew of different genres on the screen: from the Gothic thriller to fantasy, fairy tale, boulevard fouling and newspaper note from the heading: “Incredible, but the fact”. Composing a script, Rowling interfered with a fabulous plot a sharp filling from the problems of the modern world:

In addition to xenophobia, there is tolerance (the law prohibits the mixed marriages of wizards and non -murderers), and the pathological nearby of the government and special services.

A thoughtful visual solution resembles pictures from an old book. The world of magic is sewn from hundreds of details, literally dotted with computer effects. And there are so many main characters in it that it is easy to get confused. Among them are not yet an old, but already wise protection teacher from dark forces at the Hogwarts school Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), Zoologist Newt Salamander (Eddie Redmayne), ordinary baker Jacob Kovalski (Dan Fogler) and his beloved sorceress Kuinny Goldstein (Elison Sudol) and her sister, investigator of the magical department Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston). There is also a melancholy girl-werewolf Nagini (Claudia Kim), turning into a giant snake. And finally, the unfortunate Credence (Ezra Miller). Everyone is looking for him because he is Obskur (a wizard who suppressed magical abilities that turned into a powerful, uncontrollable power). And also a variety of magicians and Muggles with difficult fate and confusing related ties, obscurantists, sea dragons and smells, as well as the cubs of the smell.

The feeling that you are rushing along a colorful maze, crowded with magical characters. Next to some, they manage to slow down, consider and even love. Others - you won’t have time to blink - remained far behind. The very oversaturated story bends under the weight of countless microdists, details and rebounds into the past.

And when in the final the action breaks down literally at half -word, you understand that this whole carnival is only an exposition, a preamble to the next series.

Nevertheless, it is already obvious: “Fantastic creatures: the crimes of Green de Wald”-the symphony of the incredible in five parts will be performed over the next years. So, spells, potions, alchemy and the dream of reason that gives rise to cute and disgusting monsters, under applause, adoration and rustle of billion army of fans will continue. So my friend is right: “creatures” will once again tear the cashier.