I loved THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA when I was a kid. Can't remember the horse's name, but he was probably my favorite character. The ending, though... the crucifixion and resurrection parallels made me really uncomfortable, even though I didn't really get them. As an adult, I can see the symbolism as an inevitable part of an intentionally religious story--maybe a proselytization, though I don't remember clearly enough to use that word confidently.

As a little Jewish kid, it made me feel betrayed. I'd invested myself wholeheartedly in this wonder, and at the end, here it goes and gets weird on me. I couldn't have explained to you what the symbolism represented (or that it was "symbolism"); all I knew was that until then, it was warm and exciting, and then it veered and felt cold and strange.

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (the link takes you to a Quicktime trailer) will be out in December.

The painfully introverted little child is very excited.

The adult regrets to discover he's steeling himself against a Christian parable in a neoconservative country--and hopes the child won't feel betrayed again.

I don't know anything about this production. I don't know whether they downplayed the symbolism or emphasized it, and I don't remember whether the first book really had that much of it anyway.

Kinda stinks, though, to have the doubts. It's my own problem, but I'd rather be hoping the movie's going to be great than bracing--a little, just a little--for a thwack on the head with a scepter.

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