Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland. It's the kind of movie that I want to write an extensive essay about. Let me write about it.
It's about time, about being followed by time; and that growing up is inevitable. Apparently, the crocodile that swallowed the alarm clock is a metaphor for how the clock is always ticking in our lives. That time is always following us. Captain Hook always ran away when he heard the sound of the clock because he knew that the crocodile was after him. Eventually, he gets eaten by the crocodile. He is consumed by time.
This movie is also about not taking things so seriously and remembering to live your life. Remember that small moments count just as much as big moments. It's about imagination, and how our minds are flexible and what we BELIEVE can affect how we live and how we perceive the world. I inferred the message that we have to create the world that we live in, no matter where we actually do live.
Neverland is a place that the author came up with when he was a young boy and his older brother passed away. He imagined that his brother went to a place called Neverland, which was basically his vision of what heaven must be. This being said, it is a place where you can't grow old. J.M. Barry (the writer of Peter Pan, the character that Johnny Depp plays) said that "Little boys should never be put to bed, because then they will always be one day older." Barry lived in a world of high society where people took things way too seriously. He was finally able to find a "glimmer of happiness" (as quoted from the movie) by spending time with the children. To be ungrown is to be unmolded, or at least not fully molded. Or maybe being young is to be less influenced, less developed. I've been a child for most of my life, and honestly I can't say when exactly I stopped being one.
People are so fascinated by children. Honestly I don't think that I was ever really a normal child...but what is normal? One could ask what is normal for a developmental stage, but then again, aren't we always in a state of development?
That's all I can really stomach right now.
It's about time, about being followed by time; and that growing up is inevitable. Apparently, the crocodile that swallowed the alarm clock is a metaphor for how the clock is always ticking in our lives. That time is always following us. Captain Hook always ran away when he heard the sound of the clock because he knew that the crocodile was after him. Eventually, he gets eaten by the crocodile. He is consumed by time.
This movie is also about not taking things so seriously and remembering to live your life. Remember that small moments count just as much as big moments. It's about imagination, and how our minds are flexible and what we BELIEVE can affect how we live and how we perceive the world. I inferred the message that we have to create the world that we live in, no matter where we actually do live.
Neverland is a place that the author came up with when he was a young boy and his older brother passed away. He imagined that his brother went to a place called Neverland, which was basically his vision of what heaven must be. This being said, it is a place where you can't grow old. J.M. Barry (the writer of Peter Pan, the character that Johnny Depp plays) said that "Little boys should never be put to bed, because then they will always be one day older." Barry lived in a world of high society where people took things way too seriously. He was finally able to find a "glimmer of happiness" (as quoted from the movie) by spending time with the children. To be ungrown is to be unmolded, or at least not fully molded. Or maybe being young is to be less influenced, less developed. I've been a child for most of my life, and honestly I can't say when exactly I stopped being one.
People are so fascinated by children. Honestly I don't think that I was ever really a normal child...but what is normal? One could ask what is normal for a developmental stage, but then again, aren't we always in a state of development?
That's all I can really stomach right now.