If the hardness of my heart was only half of what it is now, I would have been moved early in the middle of the film, but at the end I was still moved, like a child.
In my personal experience, perhaps the power of this film comes from a constant question and the ever-changing answers behind it.
Who is peter pean?
Maybe it's the big dog who dreams of being a circus star bear in the opening paragraph of the park.
When Barry paid special attention to Peter, the most melancholy of the four children, and encouraged him to write his own story, I once thought that the peter who was troubled by the loss of his father was Peter.
He's grown up and lost his childhood too soon after Barry tells why Peter's mother loves these kids so much - he's playing his brother who died prematurely and comforting a grieving mother. In his mind, there is a place that will never grow up, called neverland. I vaguely felt and was reinforced by Barry's innocence: Barry is the Peter.
But, I was wrong, as was manager Dustin Hoffman, who was worried about the fate of a children's play in a large theater for an adult audience.
When the audience ended with suspicion and laughed as unscrupulously as the orphans who specially arranged for admission, when an old lady in an elderly fan told Barry that her husband could not come to join because of his recent death, but she believed that now he and When peter was in neverland together, when Barry told the audience that little peter was peter pean, and little peter firmly answered Barry that you are peter pean, I know that everyone has a peter paen hidden in their hearts, including me and I who are watching the DVD at the moment See you here.
At the end of the film, Peter, who lost his mother again, asks Barry how he can keep his mother in never land, and the answer is "just beleive".
Yes, this is a fairy tale for all adult "children", a fairy tale revolving around beautiful loss, sadness and faith.
A digression:
johnny depp, please excuse my ignorance, have been thinking of you as that funny capitan actor from pirates of the caribbean, but as of today, you are a great actor in my category.
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