Narnia: Reisen til det ytterste hav

Den tredje Narnia-filmen (Reisen til det ytterste hav) byr på en flott kino-opplevelse for hele familien – både filmatisk og tematisk. For en Narnia-fan er jo filmen en ren nytelse!

Men her er også nok av stoff til ettertanke. C. S. Lewis-spesialisten Colin Duriez fremhever at boka The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ – som jo filmen bygger på – egentlig dreier seg om en dobbelt søken:

The sequel to Prince Caspian, this is the story of a double quest, for seven lords of Narnia who disappeared during the reign of the wicked King Miraz and for Aslan’s Country at the end of the world over the Eastern Ocean. Reepicheep the mouse is particularly seeking Aslan’s Country, and his quest embodies Lewis’ characteristic theme of joy*. (A field guide to Narnia [Sutton Publishing, 2005] s.95)

En rekke av filmanmeldelsene fanger ikke inn dette sentrale temaet, men preges heller av de sedvanlige fordommene mot C. S. Lewis, Narnia – og kristen tro. Også dette gir grunn til ettertanke …

[* «The theme of joy is like a thread running through the Chronicles, and indeed through most of the writings of C.S. Lewis… [He] portrays it as a secret human longing that no experience can satisfy. Joy is a keen sense of homelessness that finds no home in the world… In the Chronicles this mysterious longing is most often associated with the presence, or even the hint of the presence, of Aslan, the Creator-Lion…» (A field guide to Narnia s. 50)]

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English: The third Narnia-movie The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has a double quest as a central theme, as expressed by C S Lewis-expert Colin Duriez in the quote above.