Sunday, February 24, 2013
A Whole New World
There
is vast number of us out there that have dreams of this world having magic in
it and how cool it would be to be able to do magic, but sadly were stuck on a
dull planet where the closest thing to magic is the closest chemistry lab. Luckily
we have movies like Harry Potter that lets us envision our world if it did
happen to hold some kind of magical potential. It would be cool to have some
aspects of this world be merged with ours but not exactly all of them,
especially the giant spiders part, but none the less it does give some little
kids hope that somewhere out in the world there is magic and more to life than
what we see. Now some may ask how Harry Potter supports this belief, but it can
be seen right in front of your eyes when they talk about “muggles” in the movie
and they exit our world and enter the magical world by crossing into the
platform 9 ¾ to catch the train to Hogwarts. These movies show kids that Harry
and his friends can leave this world and enter a completely new one where
magical things happen that many kids dream of. Of course you may be thinking “what’s
wrong with letting their imaginations work a little?”, my answer is that
nothing is wrong with this but at the same time when they learn that this is
not a real place and that there really isn't any magic in this world (that we
know of) it could really upset these kids and cause them to not want to watch
the movies any more. This idea basically is like when kids find out Santa Claus isn't real, Christmas then kind of loses the magic that you felt in it as a
little kid. This dominant ideology of there being magic in the world, created by
the movie, also caused a lot of issues with parents values by challenging what
they believed in and showing their kids “witchcraft”. This concept caused a lot
of problems for families that were close to their religion especially the
Catholic religion. So by putting this
idea of a world of hidden magic within our world seems like an idea that would
be great to have in a story line but at the same time could cause a lot of
problems for the producers of the movie.
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Good point. This is one of the main things I fear becoming a potential father some day. Revealing to my children that the things they see in movies and magical holiday traditions are in fact not real. The hardest part about growing up is just that, growing up.
ReplyDeleteI agree, there is controversy with putting out a movie like Harry Potter that can lead to young viewers believing this type of magic is real, and parents seeking to ban the book from schools. You show the belief that Harry Potter encourages children to believe in magic, which can really damage them in the long run, especially being so invested in it. I agree it is devastating for everyone, but I think that after you get over the initial shock of Santa not being real, and magic in Harry Potter not being real, you can learn to enjoy it for what it is.
ReplyDeleteBeing older it is hard to imagine the idea that magic might potentially be real, and i never thought about how these ideas may affect children.
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