Middlearth thrives through the unlimited fantasy of the director

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2013)

With this review I mainly wished to turn to all the fans of the book that dislike the film - if you just could scale down a bit being so strict about the book and its accordance to the film and give yourselves a favor of enjoying one of the most heartfelt, visually stunning adventure films of all times. If you truly believe in Middlearth, why don't you give it a chance of having more than the given plot lines, more than a certain amount of dogmatic legends... You could kindly let others to tell their story of Middlearth and see it as a widening of your beloved world.
One thing I wanted to talk in particular about, that has provoked so much negativity and so undeservedly - the purely beautiful "impossible" love story of elf maiden and dwarf lad... Now tell me, how can it meet such intolerance? Who says these two different "races" of the Middlearth couldn't fall in love? It is actually very racist and a very limited opinion, if you think about it. How can you argue the fact that love is between two souls not two races? This love story is so subtle and pure in the film... Like none of the two characters has even given a thought of falling in love, when the purest form of attraction strikes them and they get unexpectedly fascinated by each other widening each others horizons... And knowing what destiny awaits Kili in the third film makes this story line so deeply bittersweet, like this love was never meant to be, but still happened to give him a chance to experience life in all its beauty. It makes me listen the title song "I see fire" from Kili's perspective tearing my heart out and giving me deep appreciation of the moment I am living here and now. All these powerful emotions and revelations in me have been reached by this little sideline of the story that so many people find hate-worthy.
As for the 48 frames per second that gets criticized so much I can only say that it is truly breathtaking to participate in. I wish you could just switch off your mind, which is criticizing video games, and let your heart experience an amazing adventure and future of cinema.
And as for the ending, I don't know what people are so shocked and disappointed about. For me the film ended as exciting as it could just to leave me with such sweet longing to know how all the threads of the plot will resolve.
To conclude - love and respect the director, who has given so many years of his life in hard work and all the warmth of bis heart to bring us this overwhelmingly kind and exciting story that makes us realize that thankfully the child is never entirely gone. Respect his vision and creativity, as we all should be thankful to him for the long hours of happiness and deep emotion, that he has given us.
Love, Vita