Walking the street from morning to night // With a star upon your shoulder lighting up the path that you walk
GLORIOUS! I just saw a beautiful film. Have you seen 'Finding Neverland'? I had been wanting to see it since I'd seen a movie trailer for it before it came out, but I think I just lost it in my mind until today when I was grabbing my keys to go get it and it was sitting on the kitchen counter, conveniently (destiny?). I'm so lazy, and mostly lyed around like my cat, drove around and thought for a while, came back and I thought "maybe I'll turn in, if I get to it I'll watch the film tomorrow..." But something happened, I think either I remembered that Kate Winslet is my favourite actress around or that Johnny Depp becomes his character, and I decided that I can put off getting up before noon another day.
It's like dreaming for 100 minutes. I mean that's it. In english, it's the story of J.M. Barrie, the man who wrote 'Peter Pan' and the different influences that came to be the masterpiece of imagination that it is. It's so wonderful, how everybody looks down their nose at Barrie as his imagination takes flight and he turns the park into a circus for all the children or their garden into Cowboys and Indians or the forest into a pirate ship. Kate Winslet's Mom, I forget her name in this so let's call her Kim Bentley, leads the way of those stopping at nothing to try and tear down the world of fantasy all around them, in vain.
Them is the widowed Kate Winslet (Sylvia) and her children, the oldest of 4, Peter, is at the center of everything. He has had so many terrible things thrown at him, just like so many hardships, things that nobody deserves to go through, especially at such a young age, and as a result he channels his fears and frustrations into banishing childhood dreams, seeing with just his eyes and never his heart and burying his imagination. It's when Barrie opens the children up to the world beyond "grown up reality" do they and Sylvia (the only adult not to have abandoned fantasies for society/"respectability") see the fairy tale that life is, not through escapism or "burying your head in the sand", but by seeing the magic in things that you are trained as you become an adult to overlook or to forget.
And as Barrie uses his heart to weave together the adventures of that summer with the children and Sylvia into 'Peter Pan', so does Peter see that there really is a Neverland, like there is a heaven, and as Barrie tells him "you can go there whenever you like", in his heart. I just deleted the whole paragraph that went right here talking about the most wonderful part for me, I think it might spoil it if you had wanted to see it, it happens just before and during the theatre performance of 'Peter Pan'. It is just beautiful. Just so much spirit from the children, it's like how a friend and I talked about just recently, (destiny?) and how it seems that you are born perfect; like your eyes are connected to your heart and not your brain, and concepts of "social status" and "corporate ladders" and anger and hatred and coldness haven't yet been programmed through experience and scorn. But also all this garbage can't totally blow the candle out in your heart, that there is such a thing as magic, and that things like imagination, and friendship and Love last forever if you believe in them.
It's like dreaming for 100 minutes. I mean that's it. In english, it's the story of J.M. Barrie, the man who wrote 'Peter Pan' and the different influences that came to be the masterpiece of imagination that it is. It's so wonderful, how everybody looks down their nose at Barrie as his imagination takes flight and he turns the park into a circus for all the children or their garden into Cowboys and Indians or the forest into a pirate ship. Kate Winslet's Mom, I forget her name in this so let's call her Kim Bentley, leads the way of those stopping at nothing to try and tear down the world of fantasy all around them, in vain.
Them is the widowed Kate Winslet (Sylvia) and her children, the oldest of 4, Peter, is at the center of everything. He has had so many terrible things thrown at him, just like so many hardships, things that nobody deserves to go through, especially at such a young age, and as a result he channels his fears and frustrations into banishing childhood dreams, seeing with just his eyes and never his heart and burying his imagination. It's when Barrie opens the children up to the world beyond "grown up reality" do they and Sylvia (the only adult not to have abandoned fantasies for society/"respectability") see the fairy tale that life is, not through escapism or "burying your head in the sand", but by seeing the magic in things that you are trained as you become an adult to overlook or to forget.
And as Barrie uses his heart to weave together the adventures of that summer with the children and Sylvia into 'Peter Pan', so does Peter see that there really is a Neverland, like there is a heaven, and as Barrie tells him "you can go there whenever you like", in his heart. I just deleted the whole paragraph that went right here talking about the most wonderful part for me, I think it might spoil it if you had wanted to see it, it happens just before and during the theatre performance of 'Peter Pan'. It is just beautiful. Just so much spirit from the children, it's like how a friend and I talked about just recently, (destiny?) and how it seems that you are born perfect; like your eyes are connected to your heart and not your brain, and concepts of "social status" and "corporate ladders" and anger and hatred and coldness haven't yet been programmed through experience and scorn. But also all this garbage can't totally blow the candle out in your heart, that there is such a thing as magic, and that things like imagination, and friendship and Love last forever if you believe in them.
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