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  • Greetings, and welcome to Earthling Cinema.

  • I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid.

  • This week's artifact is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which -- fittingly for a

  • story about wizards -- pulls off the incredible magic trick of turning one book into two movies.

  • The film begins by documenting the rise of Tom Voldemort, who is seizing power despite

  • having lost the popular vote by 3 million.

  • But rather than address foreign policy or the collapse of the middle class, his primary

  • focus is on healthcare -- specifically ending the health of a high school athlete named

  • Harry Potter.

  • Unfortunately for him, Harry is healthier than ever.

  • "Look away, I'm hideous."

  • Harry is determined to defeat Voldemort by destroying all the pieces of his soul, which

  • are called whore-crutches, since, as everyone knows, whores have no need for souls.

  • Apparently all the adults are too busy for this incredibly dangerous mission upon which

  • rests the fate of the free world, so Harry enlists two other high schoolers, Hermione

  • and His-mione, or Ron for short.

  • The first whore-crutch is a locket, and they quickly get that by mugging an old lady.

  • They can't figure out how to destroy it,

  • "Incendio!"

  • "Diffindo! Reducto!"

  • but then a horse ghost shows up and leads Harry

  • to a big letter opener, which is perfect for this sort of thing.

  • Next they travel to someone's dad's house and learn all about the Deathly Hallows: the

  • Elder Wand, the second one, and the Cloak of Invisibility.

  • Harry realizes Voldemort wants the Elder Wand because it's the only thing powerful enough

  • to kill him, a teenager of below-average height.

  • Some more stuff about whore-crutches and then it's off to school, since they're a few months

  • late and those tardies can really add up.

  • Voldemort and his army arrive to burst their bubble,

  • and Harry realizes Voldemort's snake --

  • is the final whore-crutch.

  • Or so he thinks!

  • In a stunning Pepsi twist, a Coked out Snape Mountain-Dews the impossible by revealing

  • he's been a good guy the whole time.

  • Oh, and as long as he's revealing shit, might as well mention that Harry himself is actually

  • the whoriest crutch of them all.

  • Harry surrenders to Voldemort so he can get in one last hang sesh with Gandalf, I mean

  • Obi-Wan, I mean gay Santa.

  • Voldemort has just finished telling everyone Harry is dead when Harry wakes up, making

  • the V-Man look pretty foolish.

  • Some nerd opens the snake with the letter opener, and then Harry and V-Money try one

  • last time to save their relationship, but to no avail.

  • Harry breaks the Elder Wand so nobody can do magic ever again.

  • As a reward for all their accomplishments, the main characters don't age for the rest

  • of their lives.

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows explores the evils of prejudice in a mostly affluent,

  • mostly white society.

  • Voldemort considers pure-blooded wizards superior to those with mixed ancestry.

  • "It is Mrs. Burbage's belief that muggles are not so different from us.

  • She would, given her way, have us mate with them."

  • His campaign harkens to the Third Reich, when, ironically, Albus Hitler targeted Jews for

  • being TOO magical.

  • Closer examination of the series reveals countless examples of marginalized groups.

  • House elves are slaves to powerful wizarding families.

  • "How dare you defy your masters!"

  • Goblins are seen as greedy and untrustworthy.

  • "Liar!"

  • Dragons aren't allowed to wear clothes.

  • "That's barbaric."

  • Countless.

  • Harry disregards these oppressive labels, just as he ignores the stigmas attached to

  • people like "Loony" Lovegood.

  • The film suggests that Harry's acceptance of difference is one of the essential components

  • to his success, along with being famous.

  • Because he befriended Luna, he gets crucial assistance from a terrifying ghost.

  • "Are you a friend of Luna's?"

  • And Dobby, whom Harry freed from servitude, gives his life to provide the necessary emotional

  • beat to bridge the two movies.

  • The film uses biblical allusions to accentuate its message of tolerance, and to remind people

  • what the best book was before Harry Potter.

  • Harry bears many similarities to Young Jeezy Louise-y.

  • They share a nickname and both exhibit meaningful scars inflicted by enemy attacks.

  • Harry's return from the train station mirrors the resurrection story and the idea that a

  • sacrifice in the name of love may deliver people from trains.

  • In contrast, Voldemort takes his sobriquet from Satan and shares his association with

  • the snake, the least Jesus-like animal in the world because of its inability to wear sandals.

  • The film concludes that moral virtue is not inherent, but rather a product of one's choices.

  • Despite all the horrible things that have happened to Harry -- like never getting a

  • cell phone -- he not only refuses to take vengeance on those who have wronged him, but

  • puts himself in danger to help them.

  • Nobody is irredeemable because it's never too late to choose to be less shitty.

  • Snape becomes a double agent so he can have free reign to act like an asshole.

  • Draco stops being an asshole and develops face blindness.

  • "Well?"

  • "I can't be sure."

  • And Draco's mother develops pulse blindness.

  • "Dead."

  • But as the fable of the deathly hallows teaches, in order to be truly good one must curb his ambition.

  • The elder wand symbolizes the lure of power and its fatal consequences, to which Voldemort

  • naturally succumbs, as would a great many others.

  • "Just sayin, that's the elder wand. The most powerful wand in the world. We'd be invincible."

  • Harry chooses instead to destroy it, emphasizing the fact that he's an idiot.

  • For Earthling Cinema, I'm Garyx Wormuloid.

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