Clearly this is not a movie review. Rather it is an invitation. An open invitation to watch this movie (again) and to see it through a particularly magical lens. Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a movie that received a lot of unfair criticism. I say ‘unfair’, not only because compared to the digital trash such as the myriad of superhero movies unleashed upon us, it has an old myth with plenty of real spiritual beings woven into it at its story-telling heart. But more importantly because through a magical lens it has an astonishing amount of real insights and even pearls of wisdom to offer. This is the kind of movie you want to watch with your kids - and help them hang their dreams on it. Because behind its facade of action and fantasy, it holds on to a mythical landscape and reality, that they might choose to discover on their own later on in their lives...

I guess, Joan put it perfectly why this movie might have sparked such contrary reactions. She watched it with friends and came out of the cinema loving it while her friends hated it. Her laconic commentary was: Well, I guess we all see different things.

So this is what we will try here: In four short commentaries we’ll shine a light on some of the magical scenes this wonderful action movie is taking us into. The following brief comments are not at all meant to ‘explain’ the respective scenes, but to draw our attention to specific places in the narrative of a movie that might deserve a second viewing... Speaking for myself, I watched it four times within the matter of two weeks, and am still discovering more.

— Finally, here is a 'Thank You' to all the wonderful people who have worked on this movie. A Thank you to all their creativity, passion and magic that they have bound into these images. I invite us to honour their work - as mass media consumers with our time (and maybe our money when buying the movie?), and as magicians with our ability to see.