Will Poulter’s performance as Eustace provided a brilliant character arc, as a selfish boy is transformed—literally and figuratively—into a hero.
The film ends with the Telmarines given a choice: stay in Narnia or go to an island in our world (implied to be Earth’s South Seas). Aslan tells Peter and Susan that they have learned all they can from Narnia; they will never return. The scene at the train station—where the four stand together one last time before Susan and Peter walk away—is heartbreaking. narnia 1 2 3
In the film’s most spiritual moment, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace nearly sail over the sea-lily-covered end of the world into Aslan’s Country. Edmund and Lucy are told they, too, are now too old. A lamb—revealed to be Aslan in a form evoking Christian imagery—tells them they must learn to know him by another name in their own world. Will Poulter’s performance as Eustace provided a brilliant
Four siblings step through a magical wardrobe into the frozen land of Narnia, where they must unite with the great lion Aslan to defeat the evil White Witch and fulfill an ancient prophecy. The scene at the train station—where the four
“There I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.” — Aslan