Now, early thoughts. You begin the video and see a throwback costume to the glamourous decadent drapery and getup of the
JK Rowling video, but the contrast is striking.
I personally thought Parrott’s costume in
JK Rowling was one of his most elegant ones, but the 2023 remake was an actual jump scare. He looks genuinely sick, discoloured, and puffy in places. And that’s only the beginning. There are four or five different costumes in this video—not out of the ordinary for him—but each one is the bear minimum and irrelevant to every scene. Furthermore, the sets have very little detail, and almost no background music is used. This was clearly a last-minute production—a hack job, as one kiwi assessed—wherein he seems to have freaked out over the JK Rowling witch trials process, slapped together a 50 paged essay, filmed for a few hours, and speedily edited it into a two-hour-long ramble that lasted ten times as long as it should have.