The Golden Compass
“The Golden Compass” directed by Chris Weitz is an adapted script from the book with the same name. The film’s main characters are interpreted by consecrated actors like Nicole Kidman,Daniel Craig and Ian Mc Kellen, in addition to this there’s a very young cast.
The history begins with an explanation about a parallel universe that consists when a person's soul resides outside the body in an animal called a "daemon".
The story focuses on the “dust” which seems to be something magic and at the same time something forbidden, not less important is the golden compass which is an strange gadget to know the truth behind the people and only one person can read it, this person is Lyra a little girl with a unknown past; she realizes that a conspiracy against children and their demons has been planed and somehow the “dust” is involved, in order to stop this plans she starts a journey where she finds some strange and magic friends who will help her across weird lands and seas.
Lyra's best friend is kidnapped so she has to travel to North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle. The films reaches a dramatic climax when Lyra rescues her best friend and Mrs. Coulter explains her that the separation procedure is necessary because Dust causes "bad thoughts" as children near maturity. Also, she tells Lyra that she is her mother and Lord Asriel is her father but when Mrs. Coulter asks for the alethiometer, Lyra escapes. Moreover, Lyra leads the other children outside and a battle between Iorek, the Gyptians, and witches versus Magisterial people breaks out. At the end, Lyra travel north with the hope to find her father.
“The Golden Compass” is an interesting film, good for a weekend and with beautiful sightseeing. The only tragic part is that this film doesn’t have a second part and you have to read the book to kwon what’s the end. Besides it’s a good film that you have to see !!
