Review №2

Finding Neverland

Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman as Charles Frohman, Julie Christie and others.

Director:  Marc Forster

Synopsys: Searching for inspiration the writer J. M. Barrie meets Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, a mother of four boys, who are careless and believers in miracles because of their age. Mr. Barrie becomes a very good friend for them and creates a famous play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up.  

Review

The action of the film told the story of creation one of the most favorite children’s books Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up. After the failure of the last play James Barrie met the widow Sylvia and four her male children one of whom, Peter, became the main character of James’ play. Firstly, the boy did not like the writer because he though him to replace the father, whom Peter loved and missed so much. However, later friendship between them helped James to fantasy such successful play as Peter Pan. Meanwhile Sylvia got ill and the writer took care for her and the children. He did not left the boys even after her death and his great success.

I guess that success of every film’s atmosphere created mainly by the characters’ clothes and surroundings. Here I mentioned a good job of the costumers because they could show special period of time in which the film took place. Sylvia and her mother’s dress obviously showed their belongings to the upper-class. But I like the costumes for the play “Peter Pan” which were completely suitable in my opinion.

Johnny Depp is one of my favourite actors because he is a man of great talent. He coped with the task to perform an unsuccessful play writer who had lost the inspiration and trying to find it became a necessary friend of the Davies family. Kate Winslet in her turn is not less talented actress who made her best to create such heroine with all Winslet’s charisma. The other actors were also great in their performance and made the film interesting and professional as well. Especially, I would like to note Freddie Highmore’s (Peter) performance who in his young age demonstrated good play.

To enjoy such kind of movies I should have special mood and I was lucky to have it while I was watching “Finding Neverland”. This film deeply impressed me because of the boys’ sorrow, the mother’s courage and the writer’s sympathy and compassion. Loss of the father took real childhood away from the boys and Peter even wanted to grow up because he thought adults do not fell such strong pain. I like the idea, the performance and the visual side of the film. It touched the theme which is closely to me that is why I can point it out from different ones.