Movie Review: Little Women pt. 2

Here's part 2 for the Little Women review!

Also, it might be because I’m still a very amateur interpreter when it comes to movies, but I was confused with the purpose of this movie. It’s hard to say that it was meant to show women pursuing what they want despite the discouraging ways of society, which I was expecting, because in the end, even a character like Jo changes her book as the publisher says and makes all of her characters marry. Possibly it was just showing that all women have different wonderful dreams, and have talent that sometimes exceeds those of men. (As shown in the scene of Amy’s art compared to a man’s next to her.)

         But, I could see (or rather hear) that the original score contributed much as it tried to patch up the holes left by the script or plot. I feel like it was meant to show a deeper aspect to the movie, which was why it was probably nominated for the Original Score part in the Oscars and perhaps other awards. Although I wasn’t able to interpret much out of the score, it seemed very ironic to me when tragic music was inserted in the scene where Amy was given a marriage proposal. Maybe this was so because she rejected it, but probably it was supporting Jo’s opinion of marriage (which, absurdly, changes in the end when she feels lonely and married. Maybe this was a way of showing that even back then, love was something not to criticize.)

        In conclusion, I think this movie had lacked plot which made it rather boring, and without much of a strong point (or maybe it had one just hard to interpret) due to an ending almost opposite to the purposes I had thought the movie was suggesting throughout. Despite the fact that Little Women had been adapted into several movies over the years, I felt that either the director failed to adapt it into an interesting film, or it was not a book meant to be adapted in the first place. I think the reason this movie was rated so high on Rotten Tomatoes and other websites was because it was reviewed within the frames of the plot of the book itself. In other words, I think the critics mostly focused on the way the movie expressed the book, and the importance of the movie in the kind of society we live in nowadays.