Academy Awards, Atlanta Film Critics Association Awards, London Film Critics Association Awards winning films, Sweet Tea, Ronan, Emma Watson strong support... It can be said that the movie "Little Women" has already earned everyone's expectations as early as the beginning of the release!
In fact, the movie "Little Women" was supposed to meet with domestic audiences on Valentine's Day on February 14 this year, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it was dragged out until this Tanabata Festival to appear on the big screen. After more than 6 months of waiting, Xiaobian also went to the theater for the first time and enjoyed this masterpiece full of literary retro feeling.
First of all, it can be said responsibly that the film does not disappoint in its overall view, and every woman in the film has a flying personality
Gathering two generations of immortal lineup "Century Datong Frame"
Even in the United States, this is the fourth time that Little Women has been made into a movie since the last century. In addition, the United Kingdom, Japan, and China (mainland China and Hong Kong) have also adapted and filmed "Little Women". Arguably, Little Women is one of the most filmed novels in the world.
The new version of Little Women is directed by American female director Greta Gerwig, and "Miss Bird" and "Isle of Dogs" are both her works.
This time, she also gave a more independent sense of femininity to the film. Greta Gerweger rubs the life of the original female writer into the plot of the heroine, thus infiltrating her own concept of female independence more obviously.
After watching "Little Women", you will be amazed: this movie is so good at casting! In order to make this new version of "Little Women", Greta Gerweger has recruited the most beautiful stars in the Hollywood film industry today, and has come to a two-generation immortal lineup of "Century Datong Frame"!
For example, she has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress and Supporting Actress 3 times, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress "Miss Bird" Silsa. Ronan and the nominated super popular actor "Sweet Tea" work together to interpret the missed true love~
Emma Watson, who played Hermione in the Harry Potter films, and Florence Pugh, the "Black Widow Sister", team up to present a deep brotherhood
Three-time Oscar-winning veteran Meryl Streep joined four-time Ballon d'Or winner Laura Dern.
(Meryl Streep)
（laura dern）
Such a cast of films, I'm afraid you want to pay attention to it is very difficult ~ ~ ~
Old-school stories are "eye-catching"
The four daughters show the world's female diversity
Adapted from the world-famous book "Little Women", the film tells the story of four sisters during the American Civil War, when they were looking for a new life, true love and ideals, from girls to women.
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Eldest daughter: Meg
Emma Watson's eldest daughter, Meg, is the epitome of gentle women. As the eldest daughter in the family, Meg participates in many of the family's social activities. She would dress up nicely, curl her hair, wear a brightly colored skirt, and go to a dance party with no purpose.
Behind the beauty, Megan is a person who is willing to fight for love. She meets true love, a handsome man who is financially strapped. In the face of bread and love, she chose love without hesitation.
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Second daughter: Joe Jo
The second daughter, Jojo, is played by Saoirse Ronan, whose strength is top in the new generation, and at the age of 25, she has already received 4 Oscar nominations, including 3 leading actresses and 1 supporting actress.
"Little Women" is also Ronan's second collaboration with director Greta gerwig, the two's last collaboration" "Miss Bird" helped Ronan successfully nominate for the Oscar for Best Actress, and the "Little Women" collaboration made her nominated again.
The character of Qiao Jo is a woman who is relatively different at that time, she not only has the dream of breaking through the stereotype of women in society and becoming a writer, but also dares to put it into action.
From her youth, she aspired to become an independent woman as a writer, in order to realize her dreams, Joe and her sisters parted ways on the road of life, arguing with the elders of the family who urged marriage, and rejected the sincere and sincere marriage proposal of her lover Laurie (Timothy Challemet).
Throwing off the shackles of family love, Joe Jo is still brave and firm. She came to New York alone, and no one could stop her from chasing her dreams. Joe's life path is very different from that of her sisters, but her firmness has never changed.
Ronan also gave a performance in the film that was fascinating from beginning to end. What impressed people the most was the later part of the film, the heroine played by Ronan after learning of her sister's marriage, a close-up expression scene, the blessing of enduring pain and tears, which was portrayed by her as real and profound.
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Third daughter: Amy
The third daughter, Amy, is played by Florence Pugh, who is lively and mischievous and loves to draw.
Compared with her two sisters, she has a unique sense of ren, and has a little more urgency to "rise to the top and improve her social status". Since she was a child, Amy liked to compare herself with her sisters, and she envied that her two sisters could go to the ball, play with Laurie next door, and travel to Europe with her aunt. She even secretly burned Joe's writing manuscript out of "jealousy"
However, Amy is not a bad boy, it's just that she wants a lot of things and she prefers to pay for it. For example, she seized the opportunity to come to France, while learning to paint, while busy meeting more rich children, so as to complete the goal of marrying into the rich. However, Amy has only liked one person since she was a child, that is, Laurie, the ambiguous object of the second sister Joe Jojo.
How much do you like it? She likes to meet Laurie on the road, she will jump off the carriage to say hello; like that she will wait for an hour in the hotel lobby; like to the point where she rejects the romantic proposal of the rich man's son and gives up her long-awaited opportunity to marry into the rich.
You can say that she is jealous and even lacks love for her sisters; you can also say that she corrupts her morality and falls in love with the object of her sister. But when she gives up the opportunity she has been pursuing for Laurie, Amy's purity of pursuing love also gives rise to a touch of admiration.
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Fourth daughter: Beth
The fourth daughter, Beth, is played by Elizabeth Scanlen, who is also the quietest one in the family, she is frail and sick, and only loves the piano.
She is the representative of strong women, seemingly quiet and indisputable, but her heart contains open-mindedness and bravery. Although she was the smallest and quietest in the family, when her body could not support it, she showed bravery and composure, accepted calmly, and was not afraid.
Two narrative timelines are interspersed
Little Women focuses on the diversity of women's personalities
The new version of "Little Women" adopts two narrative lines, a large number of interludes and sandwiches interspersed in them, and when you first watch the movie, you will indeed make some people feel that they can't watch it. However, after watching the whole film, the narrative style with a bright rhythm and jumping off has become the biggest surprise in the audience's heart.
The film is told from Joe's point of view, and in two hours or so, "Little Women" is almost a fragmentary memory. When you are happy with the past, the girls' mottled hearts are opened again and again; when you are immersed in moments full of laughter and touching, the film timeline is pulled back to the four sisters who have been weathered today.
Interspersed in two timelines, one belongs to the process of the four daughters growing up in their youth, and the other is that all four of them have become the appearance of the "little woman" in their hearts when they mature.
In fact, in recent years, films reflecting women's independent themes have been frequently published, and the issue of women's social status and family status has also received more attention. But "Little Women" is not like many movies, limited to showing the entanglement between women in love and marriage, in this story full of literary retro, the four sisters each have their own growth story line.
In addition to the family identity of daughters, partners, wives, their independent consciousness is the focus of the film, writers, painters, piano musicians and other social roles, from them, we can experience that women can become their own wants to be according to their own preferences and ideals.
The four sisters represent four different female three views, but each has its own wonderful, and the diversity of women's perspectives is well presented.
The brilliance of "Little Women", which longs for independence feminism, ordinary women who want to marry rich people, lies in the fact that it does not deliberately exaggerate the concept that marriage is a woman's "prison" like some women's movies, but instead confronts the polyhedron of women.
Although it is a movie released on Tanabata Valentine's Day, love is not the main line of the whole movie, this is a work for women, the affection between four girls, and everyone's growth is a major attraction.
Meg, who is dignified and beautiful and longs for love, Beth, who has a restrained and careful personality, Amy, who is lively and cheerful and loves art, and Joe, who seems rebellious but very assertive
The four of them are four very different sisters, they experienced the upheavals of war, family, and love during the Civil War, and they can still understand and support each other and dare to imagine a life alone. Isn't that exactly the life we modern women want?
Perhaps, for women, growth is to strive to live with ideas and souls, and to become the proudest person to look at!