Guest blogger: Sara 2

The first Chronicles of Narnia is a character driven movie. It starts off by the children having to go to a strange house and live during the war. The children loved to explore in this gigantic new place, and one day they found a magical closet. This closet leads to a wonderful winter land with creatures of all sorts. As the movie goes on Edmund gets tricked and trapped into coming with the White Witch. She was very evil and tricked Edmund into helping her take over Narnia. When he stopped helping her she started to be vile to Edmund and so the race was on for the other children to find Edmund and rescue him. Will the white witch gain control of Narnia? Will Edmund ever be rescued? Georgie Henley played the character of Lucy. She was the youngest sibling. Her performance was very well done; she really let the feelings of the scene come out. William Moseley played the character of Peter. Peter was the oldest of the four children. Even though he played his role well, I always felt like he was lacking the intensity of the other characters. Although his strongest point in the movie was when he was declared King Peter because he acted it very well. One theme in this movie is Humankind Redemption. By this I mean this movie relates a lot to the story of Jesus. Aslan sacrifices his life to save Edmund. From his sacrifice, Edmund’s sin is forgiven. I agree with Lisa Schwarzbaum that this movie is unlike any other. When it first came out, people had not seen something like this. We both love that about it! We also both like the actual story, most movies now days just lack that “good story” behind all the acting but not this one! I think this movie would be worth your money one time. After that I would not recommend going and spending your money again because it does get to be a little long. Also there are some boring parts that the producers could have spiced up!