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The film begins with the 1940 bombing
of Finchley, London, during the Blitz. The Pevensie children, Peter,
Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are in direct danger from the falling bombs - a
scene which did not appear in the original C.S.
Lewis book and which at the very start introduces the
underlying tension and jealousy between Edmund and his siblings which
would have a major role in the later plot.
Subsequently, the children are - as
in the book - evacuated to the country home of Professor Kirke. One day
while they are playing hide and
seek, Lucy discovers a wardrobe and enters a wintry
fantasy world called Narnia.
She spends a few hours in the home of the faun, Mr. Tumnus, who explains that
the White Witch cursed Narnia, and it has been winter for one hundred
years. In accordance with her orders, if a human is ever encountered, a
Narnian must bring them to her. However, Tumnus likes Lucy and can't
bring himself to kidnap her so he sends her home. When she returns,
hardly any time has passed in the normal world, and when the other
children check the Wardrobe, all they see is a normal wooden back - the
portal is gone...
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