Sth. about Neverland (Originally published in 2005)

Russell 2022-04-22 07:01:05

Young and handsome playwright, writer's cheating wife, beautiful widow whose mother is a nobleman, London, 1907.

With just a few words above, the plot can be woven into an ambiguous and beautiful way in our minds, entangled with the taste of lust and sin.

However, because of the name "Finding Neverland", the real key words of the film are: childlike innocence, imagination, love, growth.

The film tells the story of Sir James Matthew Barrie, the father of Peter Pan. The talented and childlike playwright meets the widowed Sylvia and her four sons by chance. This experience of being acquainted with Sylvia's family prompted him to complete the classic play "Peter Pan" that was passed down to later generations.

Quote two very emotional lines:

"Don't push your children to bed, because every day they wake up, they will grow up a bit. Then one day, you suddenly realize that they are adults."

"Every child is born on the first day. In one laugh, a spirit is born. So every child has a spirit of his own. But when the child grows up and says that he does not believe in spirits, a spirit will die."

But don't get me wrong . , "Looking" is not sentimental about the passing of childhood, at least not entirely. After watching this film, I felt for the first time that Neverland is not a place where we leave and never go back, nor is it a shelter for escaping reality and refusing to grow up. Neverland and our real life, perhaps like the illusion that the shot gave me when Barrie imagined it, are two parallel worlds, and you can always travel between them if you want. The crocodile on the island with the alarm clock in its stomach eats our time, but the tick of the alarm clock reveals its tracks, so as long as you want, as long as you keep listening, you can always escape first.

On June 1st this year, I kept the text messages sent by the wild cat on the moon, and I felt more resonant after watching this film. Children's Day is a festival that goes away. However, as long as we want, the edge of the lollipop can expand infinitely, the music of the carousel can never stop, and the love of Cinderella can last forever. We have grown up, but are still happy.

As long as you still imagine, as long as you still believe. Do not refuse to grow, and always believe in elves.

A fairy tale is a mirror. What you see in it is your own heart. I feel hypocritical, dusty, naive, unclean, because my heart is hypocritical, dusty, philistine, and unclean.

Experience growth and experience sadness, all of which can always be turned into positive forces.

Thank you Barrie, because he never said that, the genie never left him, so a hundred years later, Peter Pan still knocks Wendy's window on a summer night in London.

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Extended Reading
  • Krista 2022-03-22 09:01:25

    It's really not the type I like, but I was moved to tears, and I don't know what I'm crying for. What I see is all unreal, not a world that I can understand.

  • Julien 2022-03-23 09:01:30

    Johnny Depp's collaboration with Kate Winslet about James Barry's creation of Peter Pan Peter Pan almost drove me crazy. The esoteric life philosophy of the story makes people feel emotional! The ending still sucks.

Finding Neverland quotes

  • Charles Frohman: You know what happened, James, they changed it.

    J.M. Barrie: They changed what?

    Charles Frohman: The critics, they made it important... hm, what's it called? What's it called?

    J.M. Barrie: Play.

    Charles Frohman: Play.

  • Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: [distressed] Michael! Where are your socks?