It was amazing.
And... it made me cry. Dumbledore's death.. what he made Snape do...
And yet, it was so beautiful.. the music.. It was as if now I fully realised the characters are, in fact, adults. Perhaps we all view them as Dumbledore: seeing them as the boys from the cupboard, as children. Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco, especially Draco. And that the war between Voldemort and the other witches and wizards is now in full power, that it affects muggles, too.
And fantastic, too. The cameras... the attack in the beginning made me press my feet firmly on the ground, to remind me I wasn't spinning but the image was.. the death eaters were... And there certainly were horror elements, just like Helsingin Sanomat said. I knew perfectly well what lies beneath the surface of the lake and yet it caught me by surprise, made me flinch.
I am so going to go and see it again. This time earlier with a less mature audience, with people who, too, carry a mark of their houses, not that anyone noticed. My book that I was reading in the hall and then inside the room did probably stand out, especially since I was sitting in the front. :}
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Addition:
I really liked Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the 11-year-old Tom Riddle and his amazing look-alike Frank Dillane as the teenage Tom Riddle. The kid especially really seemed emotionless.
And then Bellatrix, or course. Evil, possibly insane and needs to boots her ego with herself instead of Voldemort but... Bonham Carter is good.
And for some reason... although I have always liked Luna, only now do I really understand her, and appreciate her eccentric attitude. Luna rules! Too bad she's in Ravenclaw, but ah well.
Interesting interpretation of the Pensieve, by the way. And Prime Minister didn't get to make a cameo after all. A good choice of action, I have to say, to omit that.
And Snape's home looked exactly as I imagined it! Love his library!
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Second addition:
I also very much enjoyed the way Apparition was made. There's just one tiny problem for future films: this one didn't include Harry et co. learning to Apparate, so they have to explain this somehow in "the Deathly Hallows" as they cannot travel the usual way. Will expect this eagerly.
