Return to Neverland

Rosemarie 2022-04-20 09:01:40

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belén Rueda
Country of Production: Mexico / Spain
Year of Release: 2007
Language: Spanish
Recommended Index: ★★★★


The last time I screamed in the movie theater was watching The Others. Because I like Nicole Kidman, I went to the cinema alone on Friday night and took the 11:00 late bus home. The next day I didn't think it was enough fun, so I pulled the flatmates to watch it again.

In fact, the ghost story itself is not scary, I am just easily attracted by some props, black and white photos of dead people, black servant clothes, courtyards with fallen leaves and ancient silent castles.

After Hollywood's failed remakes of "Seven Nights", "The Grudge" and "Ghosts and Waters", there are also some bloody horror films that make people sick. It's not enough to make one or two films, so continue to make a sequel. There are always people who feel that they have a personality to buy it.

Every time I see a film like this, all I have left in my heart is disgust, in addition to disgust or disgust. No matter how abnormal the ghosts and spirits are, they are not as good as these morbid human beings. It is the pleasure to watch others cut off their fingers and toes.

I like the storyline of "Ghost and Water" and "Silent Hill". Just because there is a mother character in the plot. I only remember that some scenes are extremely terrifying. The mother in the plot is still unwilling to give up for her child, even if she loses her life in the end.

Laura is one such mother.

By the end of the film, the cloud had cleared. There was a burst of pain and regret in my heart, but then there was a warm feeling again.

Wendy grew up in the end. But Peter Pan is still Peter Pan. It's just that good friends will always live together in Neverland.

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  • Simón: [while reading Peter Pan] Wendy grows old and dies?

    Laura: Wendy grows old, but Peter Pan takes her daughter to Neverland every year.

    Simón: Why doesn't Wendy go, too? If Peter Pan came to get me, would you come, too?

    Laura: No. I'm too old to go to Neverland, darling.

    Simón: How old are you?

    Laura: Thirty-seven.

    Simón: At what age will you die?

    Laura: What sort of question is that? Not for a long time, until you're very old.

    Simón: I won't grow old. I'm not going to grow up.

    Laura: Will you be like Peter Pan?

    Simón: Like my new friends.

    Laura: There's more than one?

    Simón: Six.

    Laura: They won't grow up either?

    Simón: They can't.

  • Aurora: Seeing is not believing. It's the other way around. Believe, and you will see.