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FBAWTFT My little review *Story*

So I’m going to summarize and comment on the key points I saw on the movie.

The story started with two major lines, the creatures that are missing and the suddenly destruction in New York.

At first all is just happy and fun with Newt being captured by Tina. A really minor dilemma that keeps escalating.

Then we go to the other side where  we have the disaster in new york followed by the MACUSA, but also with mini stories of the  Salem’s, the…  senator (the rude guy… Shaw Henry) and of course Percival.

They seems really disconnected from one another… just little coincidences among this two narratives like Tina (someone who knows Percival and Newt), the beast that Percival claims to be the source of the problem and of course credence; but credence is not as obvious as the other two because at the start we just see him as a source of information for Percival and nothing more.

Here is what I love about this, all the time I was like… “Why the fuck are you showing me this particular case of family abuse?”  And well, when Percival talks to him it seems obvious and we think “oh… this is that type character which is being taking being advantaged of … but why?” This is fed too by the constant shots on the little girl… Modesty, like is really well played and you can see the intention on it, most of the shots about the Salem’s are on her, making us believe she is the obscurial that Perci wants to find so desperately.

And this is one of the things I love in this movie; in my opinion a really well structured one, because all of the scenes has a meaning…more like an intention … and addition to the story. They are there for a reason and without one of them we wouldn’t get the whole thing.

And … I have seen the movie 3 times, the first time I got the entire “Newt stuff like getting to know him and understanding him; then, the second time, was more onto Tina and all of the characters relationships and the final time i got more into credence. That’s to say in general but in the first one at some moment before credence reveals his powers I knew he was the obscurial, because of the death of the senator, I just connected the dots at some point. And the movie answers more of the questions at the end of the movie… but it gave us hints all over it.  

Something like this:

¿why does Percival wants to find an obscurial?

¿what the hell is an obscurial? (!)

¿why does Percival wants the MACUSA to belie81ve it’s a beast?

In general … ¿what the fuck is Percival doing? (!)

Like now thinking of it, yeah all of this surrounds him since he is the “Evil” in here, the bad guy, the one making troubles for everybody. Like if he wasn’t here… Newt would have just deal with Tina and the Beast laws and credence would still be abused by that inhuman lady of the Barebone.  

Man I just realize this literally… I don’t know how should feel.

Anyway, following my preview line of thought.  

Besides Perci other questions arise, like:

¿why is the true of Newt’s visit to America?

¿why does Newt have an obscurus?

¿How does Newt plays in all of this?

Pretty simple ones, like:

¿is Newt going to collect all the creatures?

¿is he finally going to be penalized for bringing the creatures?

¿why does he bring Jacob all along?

And we got hints; Perci… seems no at all reliable.

¿why?

In the moment someone he supported doesn’t give him something he can use he just leaves. That happened with Tina. *remember that Case scene in MACUSA*

All the time something felt wrong, like something was about to happen and we were just waiting. (Building the suspense)

Then most of them start to be solved when Tina exposed Newt into the… into what I would call “the parliament of magic”.

(Because newt betrayed her trust, going out to look for the creatures with Jacob, seriously Newt… she gave you Coco :c (but well, he has broken heart and trust issues, I can’t be mad at him…

I can’t!!) )

Anyway, there we get that:

1-what is happening is not thanks to a beast but by an obscurus, said by the self-proclaimed Magizoologist himself, NEWTON SCAMANDER (clearing the doubts of the president).

2- Perci reveals his true nature… again cleared by our beautiful Magizoologist (interrogation scene)

3-Newt told us and Tina (because he wanted to convince her above anything, beautiful…) why did he had an obscurus.

4-newt told us what an obscurus is

Additional note: you know, now I see why Jacob is here, he asks for the things the audience doesn’t get, like what is an obscurus since. This is an “adult magic word” some things are taken for granted in terms of vocabulary so … he kind of asks and we get to know what the hell they are talking about.

5- We get to know who the obscurus is

6- We get to know the real intentions of Percival manipulator graves (and that get us to the final but last question that no one asked, though it makes part of the “why Percival does this” question but anyway…)

7-Percival’s real identity and final revelation of his nature. This is a plus.                                              

BUT!

We get hints, hints like:

-Greendelwald at the start in the newspaper, we knew he will have to appear in some sort of way here.

-the necklace Perci gives to credence, deathly hallows reference of Gellert and Dumbledore (I read the whole thing in wiki because I didn’t know how they are connected).

-the scene of the senator being mean to credence

-the haircut of Gellert at the start and Percival’s one

-the reason behind credence being abused by his adopting mother

- Credence hesitation to tell Perci who was the obscurus. For what I got he seems to be avoiding the topic, he never responds at first I thought it must be for his low self-esteem but now I see it more as a “he wasn’t sure if he wanted to trust him and tell him”.

And there is maybe more that I’m ignoring.

All of this gave more base to the final outcome, for me it was like just putting a camera on a series on events that are already happening… like a portion of the story. It is not like other story that starts with direct introduction of the character, it lets the character introduce itself with their actions.

Also, it gave us some previous story that we don’t know about completely but that entrails with this one.  

I think is because fantastic beast seems more like “how Newt got into this mess” so that’s why we are starting from there.

Mmm it’s also about the book thought, the title says it all. So is not just showing us the era where it was created and the person who did it, but also showing us that books have a social and a human background to it that is important to address when we read something.

A book could tell us a story but also an understanding of other eras, customs and ways of living and immerse us there, without us being there.

And FBAWTFT give us a little of that.

Since the post get really long I will separate the review into 3 posts.

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