Fine proto-feminist rendering of the novel marred only by some mediocre performances – especially from Christian Bale, Claire Danes and - ostensible star - Winona Ryder. However, Trini Alvarado and Kirsten Dunst steal the show (& save the day) with their respective roles as the sensible, conformist marrying kind and the precocious schoolgirl.
Despite this, the quality of the production values and of the writing carry the day in a plot that would probably have benefited from being longer and feeling less like a Readers' Digest version of the book. Nevertheless, this is filmmaking of a high order that respects both the source novel and the maturity & intelligence of its audience. A clever riposte to those who believe women are nothing without a man: These women do quite well without the absent father off fighting the American Civil War.
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Little Women
(1994)
80%
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Science:
Sleep of Reason:
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
(1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.
Humans & Aliens:
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
(circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.
Führerprinzip:
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.
(1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)
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