ISBN: 0783238810
Review:
Many movies have been made about Peter Pan and in my opinion this is the best. It has been updated and J.M.Barry might well be a little shocked at the way the screenwriters have romanticised the relationship between Peter and Wendy and constructed the movie around their feelings for each other and the question, “Will they kiss?” It is a modern movie and explores the subject in a way suited to this era, drawing out the feelings of the characters without departing too far from a child’s reality and imagination. Peter is made by Wendy to defend his perpetual childhood and challenged to leave Neverland and grow up. All this is set in a beautiful world where all our fantasies of flying and becoming heroes are true. A theme of my own is emerging in my reviews. I love to open my imagination to enter the imaginary kingdoms of children’s movies. In this one I can watch the fairies dance and fly into the air with my lover and waltz in the treetops. What? You think I should grow up and get into horror and gore. Why in earth would I do that? It’s not the world I would rather live in. That’s the world in which kids become murderers. We’ve had enough of that. I’d rather be Peter Pan. If you ask me why don’t I grow up I will take Peter Pan’s side and say why don’t you grow down?