Little Women #1

In June 2020, I watched Little Women for the first time at Toho Cinemas Kinshicho Orinas. The drama movie was released in 2019. It was based on the novel with the same title written by Louisa May Alcott and published in 1868. The story is set around in the 1860s in the United States and follows four sisters in a family. 

I had hardly known about the outline of the famous novel, so the story was almost new to me, however, I was really touched by how considerately they are concerned with and treat each other, though some of them sometimes started to argue with each other. When it was finished, I felt so lonely that I did not want to see the end-title credit and I liked to keep watching the heart-warming movie forever. 

The main character is the second daughter, Jo, who is as tough as a man and strives to become a professional writer, though most of the women had to depend on men those days. I was really moved by Jo's heart-felt cry against such a society, and then I was fascinated by the acting of Saoirse Ronan as the unruly girl from start to end. 

Jo often quarrels with the youngest daughter, Amy, who has worldly wisdom and hopes to become not independent but a wife in order to live happily at that time. I believe that many men including me tend to prefer Amy to Jo because she is convenient to us, though I think that governments have difficulty in realizing a gender equality society as long as men like us come to be fond of women like Amy who are convenient to us. I might be thinking too much about it, though. 

I think that Emma Watson is better suited for acting the role of a sensible and righteous woman like a class president and the oldest daughter. She also has the feel which makes me imagine that she will retire from acting in the near future and enter politics. I felt comfortable with how the three little sisters adore Meg played by the English actress. In the sisters' conversations I was the most impressed with this one in which the sickly third daughter, Beth, encouraged Jo to keep on writing when Beth was recuperating in the country and was relaxing with Joe at the beach. I was moved by how considerate the two sisters were to each other. The conversation also reminded me of the scene in Stand by Me where Chris, a brat, played by River Phoenix encouraged his best friend, Gordie, to become a writer in the future.

Little Women #2