Journal #44

There are many contemporary movies that are great, and they all show characteristics of Post Modernism. I will write about the Harry Potter movies, because they will all have the same characteristics. There is a lot of fear in all of the movies, because in all of them, Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger all run and hide from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, otherwise known as Voldemort. Voldemort killed Harry's parents and has terrorized the wizarding world for years since then. Everyone fears him, and Harry was the only one that survived his attacks, making him famous. He still fears Voldemort, because he thinks that Voldemort will be able to kill him this time, and in the meantime, he is trying to destroy all of the pieces of Voldemort's soul that he has split into seven pieces. There is also assimilation, because they are all wizards trying to get by in the wizarding world while still managing to hide from Voldemort. There is also the opposite in effect, because they are still in the world with all of the rest of the humans without magic, which they call Muggles. So they are not the same as all of those people, and they have to hide the fact that they are wizards or witches from everyone else as well. The lack of the individual is shown some, because at points, they all think that there is nothing special about them and that they are just like everyone else. They are teenagers in these movies, trying to figure out who they are, so it makes sense that they sometimes feel inferior or the same as everyone else, without showing who they really are. The opposite is in effect here as well, because at times, they know that they are the only ones that would be able to do what they are doing and that no one else is the same as them. At times they are very individualistic and selfish, and that shows that sometimes they are very sure of themselves. Many characteristics of Post Modernism are in the Harry Potter movies, and here are just a few.