After weeks of avoiding spoilers about it online, the new Harry Potter finally opened in France yesterday and tonight Margaux and I went to go see. I really enjoyed it, and am surprised by how quickly the actors are growing up. I've never really liked Daniel Radcliffe, but I can't quite put my finger on it. He's fine, there's just something deep and unrevealed in my subconcious that is...uncomfortable... with him. On the other hand I find Emma Watson completely lovely and the supporting cast of adults is always superb.
Having also read the most recent book, of course, I found it interesting to go back in time to this earlier episode and see the beginnings of what's to come, what really turns Harry into who he becomes. It was especially funny though to enjoy the French reaction, since most of the audience appeared to have been native. Their reactions to the french stereotypes regarding femininity and especially accents entertained them greatly and I sensed that they were laughing instinctively at many things before they even fully played out on screen.
It's rare that as an adult you go to see a film that is supposedly geared for a younger audience surrounded only by other adults and hear people squealing with delight that the film is starting. Ah, nerds, my people.
Then coming home I fell up the stairs of the Métro and now I have a nasty goose egg on my knee. I'm a total klutz, but this is the first time in a while that I fell so hard it actually took me a minute to recover- first my senses, then my ability to stand, then my ability to walk normally. But by the time I got home I was fine, just a little banged up. There was a moment on the stairs where visions of my 8-mile run planned for Saturday danced in front of my eyes- like a life at it's end! My melodramatic paranoia had me instantly, briefly depressed that I would not be able to run. What is wrong with me? Shouldn't I jump for joy at having an excuse not to run? But how can I resist the call of the path past le Tour Eiffel when it is all dressed up for the holidays?
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