Of course it’s great. I mean, look who it is, for heaven’s sake. A moving vision and it is just an absolute highlight. No, I don’t mean Harry and Hermione tongue kissing (a magic induced image but perfectly real and perfectly hot for us), I mean Harry and Hermione dancing to Nick Cave’s 2004 “O Children”.
It is a quiet and quietly lovely moment in a dull water treader of a movie. Remember” Back to the Future Part two”? This ain’t that. Remember “Empire Strikes Back”? It ain’t that. remember “National Lampoon’s European Vacation”. Nope not even.
The opening background music is the always rousing Potter theme. And other than the background, music is up to as much as anything else you’ll see in the mover, not very much. It is almost like the people who wrote it forget to go to script writing school. The problem/solution of every motion picture you’ve ever seen does not apply here. It just starts, chases its tail, and stops.Dumbledore is dead, the three kids go in search of some mumbo jumbo to knock off Voldermort and then it ends.
A coupla awesome set pieces, best of which is the one in the Voldermort controlled ministry of magic.With its faint echo of Nazi Germany, it is a fairly smart reflection as to what happens when democracy dies. And, when, you’re gonna cry when I tell you this but both Hedwig and Dobby croak. I can’t look at the handsome Elf without wanting to cry.
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“O Children” is off the Cave and the Bad Seeds Abbatoir/Lyres Of Orpheus album. Here is a comment off songmeanings.com “its self-proclaimed adaptation of Orpheus & Eurydice, this song marks the moment after Orpheus has lost Eurydice to Hades forever, after which he pretty much wanders aimlessly into nothing until he’s devoured by beasts. It’s a bittersweet tragedy in which he laments his situation, but rejoices in its easy solution: death, where he can be reunited with his lost love for all eternity.”
Or as we like to call it; wishing thinking.
Perhaps more to the point, s Tine Out’s Keith Uhlich noted in his review it connects back to the Aeschylus quote that begins JK Rowling’s novel: “Bless the children, give them triumph now”
Maybe, maybe, maybe the song is such a depressing little ditty -Cave claimed to have written it to his children, essentially telling them, he is gonna die and life is gonna suck (kinda hard to deny, right?), maybe it is all of a mood with the depressing movie it is from.