It's All Wrong
I'm reconsidering my plan to go see A Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe - it's not because of the creepy religious marketing. But because I'm suddenly worried it's going to be all wrong - I saw the trailer again and there's a light shining out when Lucy opened the wardrobe - which is so totally and utterly wrong that I may have to avoid the entire movie.
Plus the paper says they've added a scene at the beginning when the children get bombed, which doesn't fit with the evacuation thing at all. Children were evacuated at the beginning of September 1939, and the first few months after that were called the phony war, because nothing happened. The bombing didn't happen till a good while later. Now the penvensies are clearly at least upper-middle class children, because they go to boarding school. So they probably wouldn't have been evacuated with everyone else, and their parents would have made private arrangements. But if they're not supposed to have been evacuated till a school holiday after the bombing started then why weren't there other evacuees in this big old house from the first wave of evacuations.
I'm overthinking.