Finding Neverland
Nov. 28th, 2004 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmI wanted this to be a much bigger movie than it is -- because when it went big it was so so deliciously done. That said, it is a small and lovely drama, that captures very effectively the strangeness I think some, but not all writers feel, in the constant wandering of vague borders. Lovely, and highly recommended, but there's really only about five minutes of it that's "must see on the big screen" and most of that is in the trailer. There's this camera work when the children fly out the window in the theater production that is just the most wonderful delightful little thing.
All the kids in it are such marvellous actors, and I must give tremendous kudos to everyone along the way who was involved with how the kids were portrayed, the movie captures really perfectly the way in which children flirt (for lack of a better word, I don't mean it sexually) with adults in order to form interactions that put them on more equal footing. It's what we mean when we say a child's charmed us... they've brought us into their world and we're eager to go. This film handled that quite nicely.
In other news, I might have to soon rescind all my whining about Leonardo DiCaprio. If The Aviator is even half as good as its trailer, it's going to be astounding.
Meanwhile the trailers as a whole struck me in a strange and fractured way -- because in addition we had Bride and Prejudice (looks bad), and Phantom of the Opera (also looks bad, but is clearly going to have some really cool moments too).
All the kids in it are such marvellous actors, and I must give tremendous kudos to everyone along the way who was involved with how the kids were portrayed, the movie captures really perfectly the way in which children flirt (for lack of a better word, I don't mean it sexually) with adults in order to form interactions that put them on more equal footing. It's what we mean when we say a child's charmed us... they've brought us into their world and we're eager to go. This film handled that quite nicely.
In other news, I might have to soon rescind all my whining about Leonardo DiCaprio. If The Aviator is even half as good as its trailer, it's going to be astounding.
Meanwhile the trailers as a whole struck me in a strange and fractured way -- because in addition we had Bride and Prejudice (looks bad), and Phantom of the Opera (also looks bad, but is clearly going to have some really cool moments too).
