Watching a film. much like reading literature, is a deeply personal and introspective affair. Ones own personal experiences and history can have a profound impact upon the viewing of a work of media and this means that every film-going experience can be different and transformative in different ways. Especially if the content of that media presents subjects or situations which are deeply troubling for a viewing audience.
This can oftentimes result in the film becoming difficult to watch for some audiences, regardless of the overall quality of the piece in question. This is, I think, an apt descriptor for the experiences of triggering media on an audience.
I say all this because it's time once again to review the next entry in the Harry Potter franchise, the fifth film in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the subject of triggering content is something that this film really touches on for me, as I will discuss later on.
Now, it's been a few months since I last reviewed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and a few years since I reviewed Prisoner of Azkaban, but now its time for me to take a look at the film that I would probably say is one of the most highly-regarded and structurally strongest films in the franchise. In some ways, I would say that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the golden standard and yet, as I will go over in the review proper, I also find this film the most difficult for me personally to get through and the one that I have probably watched the least as a result.