The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Last week, I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe again.  Here are some observations I had about it (not all from this viewing).

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When the professor talks to Peter and Susan, one of his comments (referring to Lucy) has a sort of chiastic structure:

She's

your sister, isn't she?

You're

her family.

To some degree, this demonstrates the reciprocity that their familial relationship ought to have.

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Shortly before the Pevensie children meet Mr. Beaver, when they're merely reacting to the noises they hear him making in the woods, three of them are huddled together, even touching each other, but Edmund is standing apart:

Visually, this illustrates that Edmund's loyalty is pledged elsewhere.  He's already met the White Witch and allied himself with her.

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Later in the movie, Edmund's horse is named Philip.  This is an appropriate name for a horse because it comes from two Greek words that together mean "horse lover" (φίλος + ἵππος).

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[For what it's worth, here's a post I wrote about the book many years ago, mostly about its Biblical parallels.]