The damage of war is spotlessly cleaned away there. However much I like the movie I can't help seriously questioning that message. I suppose that this is simply a point we're disaggreeing on. We'll get over it I suppose. The same goes for the question of the "baddies". I don't believe they were taken care off without anything indicating they were; you believe they were taken of taking the mere absence in the few post war scenes we saw as no indication of the contrary.
You really don't get that Narnia is a fairy tale that's supposed to have a happy ending, do you? Also, it was a PG rated kid's movie. When is that going to sink in? Anyway, I don't really care if the baddies were taken care of or not. If you want to revive a minotaur, be my suicidal guest. Oh, and when was this movie supposed to mirror real life? Let's see: talking animals, magic, kids suddenly becoming warriors with little training, people turning to stone, yep, this was supposed to be SO realistic! Please... You are just over-thinking that. When there are actually children believing that war will have a clean sweep, I will believe that that little happening in the film has done any damage, you picky man.
If you wanted the film to show the corpses, to push the idea that the battle was horrible, thus pushing the rating up a few notches: Fine, but Aslan is the Christ figure, and he has the power to heal and to sweep away the damage of war (which he did, and which I believe Jesus will do someday, as well), just like that. That was part of the point of Aslan's character. It's a Christian allogory, with a purely happy ending in mind. Live with it. At the worse (for you atheists), this will give the idea that someone out there has to power to heal wounds, and God forbid someone should believe that, eh!
I never said we had to like such a character. In real life with almost no war being fought only for selfless reasons such gray zone people of differentiated mind may come accross kinder. The character would be peace-loving as he wouldn't want himself to be dragged into a war. Again this appears more indifferent in a black and white story such as Narnia than it does in real life.
Again, where in watching this film did you think it mirrored real life? It's a frikkin fairy tale!
There were countries not involved in WW2. Many countries were dragged into the war by being attacked when they would have prefered to stay neutral. Others managed to remain neutral to the end. Countries such as Sweden and Switzerland have been seriously critizised for their "indifference" in WW2. There is no "true" judgement about this as there were people in these countries who profited from the Holocaust. On the other hand these countries were a last save harbor to many jewish refugees. Had either country declared war on Germany they would have most likely been overrun and suffered from the nazi terror themselves. How harsh can we judge them?
Well, since they didn't join, I do know that it was just much harder to bring down Hitler.
Or what about Finnland that actually fought alongside the Germans against the Soviet Union who had occupied large Finnish territories before and later fought alongside the Soviets against the Germans in Lapland. Finnland did not allow its democracy to be destroyed by the Germans. Each of these examples could fill many books and threads, but I'm coming of from the topic.
Whatever.
What about the followers of the Witch. Do you really think they are all just evil? Or may it be that quite a few of them are too are scared of the Witch aware that they will be killed the moment they don't follow the Witch's command? There is a scene indicating something like this on the DvD version of "The two towers". Such a scene would have been quite appropriate in "Narnia" I think.
"There is a scene indicating something like this on the DvD version of "The two towers". Such a scene would have been quite appropriate for "Narnia" I think" Over my dead body! That was not the point of the story, and thus, there was no need for such a stupid and uncalled for little scene! Anyway, I don't care what the followers of the witch were thinking. To me, it was obvious that she hired mercenaries, traitors, and the like. No way would anyone truly loyal to the true ruler of Narnia join her. And I don't care if it's more complex in real life. It's a flippin' movie. Rated PG, only 2 hours and 20 minutes long, for kids, about as complex as they could get it without it getting bogged down with a lot of stuff! I'm glad they left the story alone, as it was when Lewis wrote it, other than a few additions here and there. None of the stuff you want is allowed, because Lewis didn't write it that way (and his stepson was deeply involved in the film), and if you were going to question how this movie gives an innaccurate idea of war: you should have been questioning the book, which it is based on, months ago. You also should have known that no such scenes would be added.
