Nikita Sirohi

Movie Review

Finding Neverland

By Nikita Sirohi

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In Johnny Depp’s new role as the famous playwright Sir James Barry, he meets a widow, Sylvia Davies (Kate Winslet), and her children. He tries to help them get over their dad’s death. However, accidentally, he is doing a good bit of damage. He’s already married, and hanging out with Sylvia is disgracing both families, because she isn’t his wife, and people are wondering if he’s behaving inappropriately with her children. After about a week of his knowing them, Sylvia’s mother, Mrs. Emma Du Maurier, (Julie Christie) tries to get rid of him by not letting anyone in the family hang out with him. However, Sir James is too busy having fun fooling around with Sylvia’s kids and writing about “Neverland” to listen. Ironically, that turns out to be a good thing, because the already broken family needs him when disaster strikes.

To add another dimension to the story, you have to consider Sir James and Peter, Sylvia’s youngest child. Peter seems to have gone into a state of mental depression, and Sir James decides that he is the only one who can bring him out of it. To do this, he tries to get Peter to open his imagination and start writing plays. However, sadly enough, Mrs. Emma doesn’t like it, so she tries even harder to get rid of him, and Sir James’s wife, Mary, (Rhada Mitchell) doesn’t like his new way of spending his time.

This movie provides you with a different perspective on Peter Pan by showing you how it was created, so if you’re looking for a movie about Peter Pan with a lot of romance and drama mixed in, you might like this movie. However, if you’re looking for an action movie, a funny movie, or if you’re younger than six, I wouldn’t recommend this movie. Of course, you might just be captivated by the drama and romance, but if you don’t like such things you won’t like this movie. Also, if you’re under six, you might not be able to appreciate the emotions in “Finding Neverland.”

The movie “Finding Neverland” of course has its downsides. Despite Johnny Depp great performance (even though he has a funny accent), the character he is playing is a little repulsive because of his complex non-relationship with his wife. However, you can’t really say many bad things about the movie. It is simply one emotional ride from one feeling to the next. From grief, to romance, to drama, YOU WANT TO WATCH THIS MOVIE! Watching Sir James (Johnny Depp) play with four kids may seem amusing, but truly captures Neverland and “gives birth” to the shadow less Peter Pan.

I am David

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David has never set foot outside a prison camp, but now escaping from one is his only hope. In “I am David,” David (Ben Tibber), haunted by his past, and terrified of being caught, makes a run for it while everyone is sleeping. Thirty seconds out of the sleeping quarters, he narrowly escapes being shot, only to run into another fiasco. He is trapped on a truck filled with soldiers, and, even though he’s hidden, they could find him any second now. Once more, he barely escapes the end of his life when he jumps out of the truck and into the woods.

After getting out of the camp, he stows away on a ship and meets a sailor called who helps him get to Italy, so he can make his way to Denmark. He doesn’t have a clue how to smile or what money is, so a certain baker won’t let him buy bread, and instead gets a soldier. He runs away, to meet a girl who’s about to die. He saves her from the burning down shed she’s tied in, and finds out that her little brothers tied her their and lit the shed on fire. Her parents are so weird that they don’t hook her up with a psychiatrist; instead they don’t do anything at all. Of course, you can’t really expect much more from a couple who let their kids light sheds on fire with their sister inside anyway. He runs away from their house and somehow meets someone he already knew, although the chances of such a thing actually happening aren’t likely.

The story’s ending was extremely strange, and there were too many coincidences in this movie. If you watch it, I recommend you watch it in a sleepy but emotional mood, so you don’t notice the coincidences but enjoy the emotions. Director “I am David” is a good movie for you if you’re looking for something emotional and deep.