C.S. Lewis wrote
a series of books a long time ago, and in them, we get to visit the magical
land of Narnia—a fictional world led and protected by a lion named Aslan.
In 2005, a
British fantasy film was made based on the events in The Chronicles of
Narnia. The first of the three-part movie series was The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe. All three films are based on just three of the books from
C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series.
The film is excellent, and the depiction of the characters is captivating. It’s like watching your imagination come to life on screen. For over two hours, it felt like I was the one on the adventure, not the Pevensie children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
Set during World War II, the four Pevensie siblings are sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke at his country home, where he lives with his housekeeper, Mrs. Macready.
Life in the big
house seems dull at first, but during a game of hide-and-seek, Lucy decides to
hide in a wardrobe. Crawling inside, she tumbles into another world covered in
thick snow. Shocked by what she sees, young Lucy encounters a faun named Mr.
Tumnus, who tells her she’s in Narnia.
Tumnus enjoys
meeting Lucy but feels conflicted about what he’s supposed to do. He ultimately
decides not to follow through. He wakes Lucy, who had fallen asleep while
listening to him play his flute, and explains that the White Witch has ordered
any human to be brought to her.
He leads Lucy back to where they met and helps her escape to her own world.
When she steps out of the wardrobe, she realizes that the hours she spent in
Narnia had no effect on her world—it’s as if she never left.
Lucy shares her
story with her siblings, but none of them believe her. Things change a day or
two later when Edmund follows Lucy into the wardrobe and enters Narnia, where
he meets the White Witch. She offers him Turkish Delight and promises to make
him king if he can lure his siblings to her. Edmund accepts the offer, and from
there, our magical tale truly begins.
The movie is
well done and spawned two more films before the production rights ended. I
think the series stopped because the latter two movies didn’t bring in enough
revenue to justify continuing.
This first film
is the best of the three and is worth watching again—or for the first time if
you haven’t seen it.
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