A little less warm

When I read "Secret Garden", I was still in elementary school, and my grandmother took me to the bookstore to pick this book at random. It was the warmest book I ever read in my childhood, and growing up I can still remember how Mary went from being a quirky girl to being lively and cheerful, and she and the gardeners, Martha, Deacon, Mrs. Soby and the friendship between Colin, how she healed a garden that had been abandoned for many years, and how she used this garden to heal the sick Colin.

The new version of the secret garden is indeed beautiful, but it lacks how Mary and Deacon carefully tended the roses, how Mary put down the shelf and wrote to Deacon to bring him the seeds of flowers, and how the two children made the garden The resurrection is not mentioned in these new movies. Instead, all kinds of gorgeous and fancy techniques are used to let the children run and run in the garden to bring back the vitality... Although the look and feel is good, it lacks a lot of warm details.

What bothered me the most was the lack of Mrs. Susan Soleby, the mother of Martha and Deacon, who had a lot of children to feed, and she was so overwhelmed that she squeezed out money to give to Mary. The skipping rope that really made Mary begin to experience and fall in love with the outdoors on the English moors. At the same time, in the original book, in order to surprise Colin's father who was traveling far away, Mary helped Colin to play the role of a sick patient who couldn't afford to eat, and deliberately did not eat the meals made by the servants. It was Mrs. Sorby who asked Deacon to give them to them. Sneak milk, potatoes and eggs, let them roast and dip in salt in the secret garden (I've been greedy for more than ten years), and finally Mrs. Soby wrote to Colin's father and asked him to come back. Her own son... In short, Mrs. Sorby gave people a very pure and simple kindness and warmth. I really didn't expect the new version of the movie to delete this character? ? ! ! It can be said to be the biggest failure of the new version of the film.

Originally, I knew that Uncle Face was going to participate in the role and I had high expectations. I didn't expect it to be adapted like this, and the plot was weakened a lot. A lot of small details and stories between Mary, Colin and Deacon are omitted, and instead the scenes of Colin and Mary's two sisters' mothers are too heavy... After reading it, I will never read the original book of Secret Garden when I was a child. It's that warm. In short, I recommend everyone to read the original work of the Secret Garden, it is really healing and moving!