When she smacks her own daemon, an evil-looking golden monkey, it is genuinely shocking. The design of the film is gorgeous, the action is thrilling, and the issues it raises about identity, free will, loyalty, integrity, and the meaning of the soul are compellingly presented. Richards has a wonderful presence as Lyra, holding the center of the film as the special effects and action scenes swirl around her. All of these developments come together as Lyra goes on a journey in search of her captured friend, a journey that requires the assistance of a cowboy (gravel-voiced Sam Elliott), a witch (Eva Green), and an armored bear (voice of Ian McKellan). And one of the scholars gives Lyra an important gift called an althiometer, a kind of compass with mysterious symbols that when read correctly - or rather, when read by the person who knows how to use it - tells the truth. An imposing and mysterious woman named Mrs. There are mysterious rumors of children being snatched up and taken away. Lord Asriel arrives with news of “dust,” a mystical force he has been studying at the top of the world. But daemons assume one form at puberty and retain it. The daemons of children shift from one species to another as the circumstances inspire - or require. In her world, “souls walk beside our bodies” in the form of “daemons,” animal spirits that are invisibly connected to their humans. She runs wild much of the time, playing with the servant’s children rather than sitting in classrooms. She is an orphan essentially being raised through the benign neglect of a group of academics, with occasional visits from her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), an explorer-scientist. Lyra lives in an alternate world that looks like 19th century Oxford. And this is a grand adventure indeed, sweeping, imaginative, epic, thrilling. In other words, she challenges authority, she is is a creative thinker, and she is in the grand tradition of the heroes of classic adventure stories. Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is disobedient, obstinate, crafty, and skeptical.
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