The Golden Compass is sneaking science fable into the holiday movie time of year , which is ordinarily reserved for magical wonder and scarcely - funny revamps of the Santa Claus myth . The pic may be envelop in fantasy furnishing with its fearless - but - precious kids and talking bears , but The Golden Compass will be more steampunk than Narnia . In fact , the studio are misleading audiences by characterize this hard - edged flick as phantasy .
OK , so there are hag , but most of the coolness in The Golden Compass come from antic scientific car rather than stark fantasy . Even the gilded ambit is a simple machine that Lyra just happens to be miraculously adept at reading . The whole story is correct in a parallel universe , with its own bent of scientific laws , which is a story frame-up well - recognise in the annals of science fiction . Parallel Earths are de rigeur in time travel news report as well as scifi telly like Sliders .
So the talking bears and other creature are n’t magical , but simply a variation on how life might have evolve on Earth . mayhap the daemons ( the animal familiars that everyone has in Lyra ’s dimension ) seem magical to you , but at least in the book they are depict as a part of each someone ’s general anatomy . They are essentially organs , parts of each person ’s brain that be outside their bodies . They are not “ souls . ” And the fabulous “ junk ” that Lyra ’s pop is attempt to track down is n’t witching either . It ’s a governable particle that helps make up the fabric of the cosmos .
peradventure the reason why Christians have been protesting the movie is that they do n’t wish seeing science seep into a story that also tries to apportion with ethics and faith . And make no mistake , there is organized religion in this motion picture . It ’s just that the so - call gods and angels are more like the powerful alien New Gods and superheroes from comic books — they are n’t wizard , just have nerveless superpower and upright technology than the world and other creature . extend a scientific account for religion , even if it ’s a scientific explanation decently out of pseudo - science tv set show hero , may be the sneakiest antic of all for this stealth steampunk classic .
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