Determinately more high-brow and thought provoking than the first five Harry Potter movies. Worth the wait!
It is steeped in the reality that death comes to all--eventually; and, that life is not a bed of thornless rose pedals.
Symbology lends itself to the New Age movement toward a New World Order.
The escapism is found in the "magic" performed (special effects of film making). One would suppose that most people live with a degree of magical thinking as a defense mechanism against the horrific pains of life that we meet with from time to time.