Harry Potter and the Cursed Child a very late and brief review.
As much as I love Harry Potter books and movies, this one in particular I couldn’t help but feeling annoyed. It may not be the best words to use but it is because I don’t want to say disgusted.
There is a reason why the Harry Potter books and movies work so well. Because you get to imagine the words, to be inside the characters’ minds; in movies you get to see a lot, to infer others. Each of their formats allow you to experiment the world in different an unique ways. Sadly for a theater production and script is not able no transmit each of the things said prior. The play is treated as if it could do as much as cinema and therefore feels unrealistic. In movies we get cut A to cut B without any disturbances but in the play we jump from point A to point B so abruptly that is even kind of hard to imagine it on stage.
As far with the story, you cannot but help yourself and seeing so many plot-holes in it. There is a reason why J.K. Rowling decided not to use any more time travels in her saga; because it breaks too much. In the case of this script/book we get tons of time travelling and obviously time distortions. The new characters feel week and one in particular, the idea of his parenthood is disturbing. The characters get and do things way too easily, as if they really didn’t matter much.
Certainly, not everything is bad. We have some nice moments with our old characters and there are times which feel very Potterly; sadly there are not many of these. Then again, this is a script and it was made to be performed on stage so maybe watching the play could change the way I feel about this thing.
** spoiler alert **
From this moment on we are going to enter into heavy spoilers.
Now with the bad things.
Voldemort was our main villain and one with a particular trait, his big ego. Therefore, the idea of him having a child is just ridiculous and even more ridiculous the moment in which this happens. The scenes in which Harry dreams of him and we get to hear his voice are never explained and feel very cheap. We as a captive Harry Potter audience (just admit it, we are), is heartbreaking to see scenes that feel as if they were there only for the purpose of creating nostalgia. As an excuse to see the Harry that we know so well.
As said before, the location and times changes feel very abrupt causing an effect which makes you feel as if you were seeing/reading things in a very rushed way, kind of a mutilated story.
The reason why the story detonates is just lazy. Feels as if they needed the excuse to start this story, it does not feel natural or coherent. All of this things were the ones that made me feel so distanced and afraid of reading this “eighth” book.
