A fascinating movie!

Rating: 9/10 (22 January 2020)

The film "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is an adventurous story about children that fled to a professor's house, during the war, and find a mysterious wardrobe that leads them to a different world. Originally written by C.S. Lewis, I was quite satisfied that this movie played out similarly to the literary work, just like I imagined it. I give this film a positive review because it really captured my attention. The settings, costumes, and dialogue are some of the elements that give support to my review.
The setting of the film really brings together the whole story. From the beginning the setting is at the children's home but there are bombings going on and it's night. It gives that scene a frightening and dark atmosphere telling the viewers it's war. The setting gets really interesting when the children enter the fantasy world from the wardrobe. The settings, in the scenes, give out the atmosphere and the feeling to that scene of the movie. From the cold and frosty palace of the evil queen to the sunny and green spring that came. The settings in the movie were important and it gave a good understanding of the feelings that came to it.
The costumes in that movie also gave the sense of the setting in that movie. By the costumes it was easy to tell what time and place it was. In the beginning the children wore simple clothes. By the way they were dressed, you could tell around what era it was and also that it had to be somewhere in Europe (and of course it was in England). The beginning gives it that simple British lives of children around 1940s. But when they enter the wardrobe it feels as if they traveled back in time but also it was a fantasy world. There were no human beings there. Some half human, half goat appears and you think "woah it's definitely some weird stuff". Through the costumes it shows that it was about the medieval times because they fought battles in the metal plated armor and had the symbolic flags and swords and weapons. The costumes give the description of the time, the place, and the environment of the movie.
Lastly, the dialogue, or the script, give a good description of the characters and the plot of the story. Using the dialogue in the film it portrays the personality of each character. For example, Edmund, the youngest boy of the four, is really the mean and self-centered boy. He always contradicts with everyone. I also love that this movie, even though in a time of war, gives a bit of humor through the dialogue the siblings have. It shows that though it's a frightening and hard time, when the siblings stick together, they still act like siblings and joke around and bicker with each other. Through the script the development of the characters was shown really well.
Overall, I enjoyed this film and even though it might have a few minor drawbacks to it. The settings, costumes, and dialogue are just some of the elements that give examples of the positives in the film.