Innocent but depressing, James Barrie found his own shadow in Peter, just as he pinned his dream on Peter Pan.
Ever since, what I want to write below is more about James Barrie.
After watching the film, I was very interested in James Barrie, so I went to check his information. There are not many Chinese materials, and the English materials are also unclear.
The narrative about his childhood in the film is basically true, but the information on the Internet only says that he adopted five neighbors' children, and there is no mention of a dim relationship with Sylvia. I don’t know if it comes from a wild history, or it’s completely fabricated. But even if it is completely fabricated, I think this plot arrangement is very reliable.
Because I always feel that Barrie has an Oedipus complex after watching this film.
When Barrie was young, his elder brother David died unexpectedly. His mother never gave Barrie any real care. Only when he wears David's clothes can he get his mother's attention. In his childhood, Barrie lacked maternal love and extremely longed for maternal love. This trauma not only made him retain a strong childish personality after adulthood, but also left him with the mark of Oedipus complex.
In "Peter Pan", Wendy is the perfect mother for boys. In reality, Sylvia, who lives alone with four children, is kind and strong, and believes in the existence of fairy tales, which is the projection of the perfect mother in Barrie's mind.
Someone asked Barrie and Sylvia if it was love. I don't know how everyone defines love. But I thought Barrie to Sylvia, as he said to Sylvia's mother after the funeral, was Love.
Love, a beautiful and complicated vocabulary, has no meaning if it is secularized.
Peter Pan is also from Love Wendy, but in the end, he who will never grow up will slowly forget his aging.
Just like when reading Peter Pan, the ending of Peter and Wendy seems to be doomed at the first meeting.
She wanted to give him a kiss; but Peter did not understand what she meant, so he stretched out his hand and waited expectantly.
"Of course you know what a kiss is?" Wendy asked in surprise.
"You give me a kiss and I will know." Peter replied stubbornly. Wendy didn't want to hurt his heart and gave him a thimble.
"Now," said Peter, "would you like me to give you a kiss?" Wendy replied, a little cautious, "please please." She leaned her cheek towards him. But Peter only put an acorn in her hand.
More of us are more like Wendy, innocence and worldliness are in us.
I know James Barrie is cute, but I also know that living with such a writer who will never grow up is either very romantic or is in danger of starving to death.
Therefore, I can't avoid the vulgarity, I know that one day, we will have daughters and daughters of daughters. And when Peter Pan took them to Neverland, we were no longer in this world.
When we get old, only James Barrie will not get old because he is Peter Pan.
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