Hello Guys! Sorry again (rolls eyes in frustration at writer’s inconsistency) for not posting for a while, again (excuses, excuses) I have had a lot going on, and barely any time to post.

Completely off topic and random, I’m really annoyed with storybird at the moment because it made it so you have to have this weird crown like things to be able to publish, and you have to pay to get them, so since I am clearly not committed enough to pay for a membership, I just had to let it go! (By the way, if any of you use storybird my “old” username was PeTs12, so totally go follow me even if I don’t use it anymore.)

This post is basically just gonna be a reflection of Little Women – the movie, I’ll do a reflection of the book when I’ve read it. (I only watched the movie first because it was on in the local cinemas and I really didn’t want to miss it, and I didn’t even have the book until my mum pulled it out and said “surprise”, but I knew that I am not the fastest reader, so I decided to go and see it before it was out of the cinemas, and then read the book to compare!)

Severe warning: do not read any further if you do not desire to have a spoilt experience of reading the book or watching the movie, because this next section has censored information about both Daybreak and Little Women.

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Reflection

I thought that Little Women was one of the best movies I had ever seen and I thought that the girls who played the four main characters (Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy) really embraced the role and portrayed the young and stubborn kind of young women they were meant to be, like all good actors should.

A similar situation to this would be the 2003 original Broadway cast recording for Wicked, because they really matched the characters to the voices; a great example in the same show is Idina Menzel (Elphaba) and Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda), because even though you couldn’t see their acting, you could tell from their singing the objective they were trying to put across.

I noticed a similarity between Little Women and a TV series I’m watching at the moment called Day Break. I thought it was interesting in the fact that Turbo from Daybreak (The leader of the Jocks, and the star sports person – don’t judge me, I honestly don’t know the difference between football and soccer!) is quite similar to all four girls, but especially Beth, in Little Women.

So let’s start with Turbo’s story. So after his mum died, his father decided he needed to do more to help the world, which focused more on dying children. Right before the homecoming game, (I’m not American, so I’m not quite sure what that means, so don’t judge my language usage!) his not-around-much dad gives him a little action figure that he later uses as a signal to terminate someone.

Unfortunately, Turbo reveals that this is a common case in terms of softening the pain of never seeing his dad. A tiny bit like the bribes Principal Burr was taking, but not as sinister. When Turbo doesn’t show too much enthusiasm, he explains to his dad: “Well, dad, it’s not that I’m too old for it, it’s that you only give me presents when you leave.”

It is then that the similarities between these two very different shows begin. When Turbo explains to his dad indirectly that he wants him to be there for him, his dad explains very reasonable and confronting excuses for not going to an important game for his only kid.

So his flight left in something like two hours, and if he stayed to watch the three hour game, that would mean it would be a sixteen hour delay until he could get on the next plane to wherever he’s going. According to him, a sick kid died around every “x” amount of minutes, so he guilted Turbo into reluctantly accepting and tolerating his departure, using the: “either I come to your game, and a whole bunch of kids die because I’m not there, or I go and save the children (that’s his little phrase). It’s your choice” method.

I can think of two scenarios in Little Women where this is valid.

The first one is when the mother makes her girls give up their breakfast as a Christmas Gift to a women with dying and starving children. I know this isn’t really as important or extreme as the other one, and it is pretty good training for the girls’ moral points, but I still wanted to include it.

The family is already pretty poor, as a lot of people were in those days, and their Christmas Breakfast was quite extravagant and exciting for them, because being poor, they probably weren’t able to spend money on presents and amusements like such. And the mother kind of used the same strategy as Turbo’s father, just less confronting, saying: “well, this is what your own father would want you to do.” But in any case, it turned out to be a good experience anyway, because their wealthy next door neighbour noticed their kind charity and decided to donate them an even richer breakfast, which I think Jo was really looking forward to, as she used the term, I could eat a horse, which, was very un lady like, may I say.

The second example was when she (the mum) was at the little donating store, giving out blankets and stuff, right after she said she had definitely not done her bit for society, while Beth was sick. This bit was very interchangeable between the first and third scenarios was the fact that the parents were kind of sacrificing their kids to help everyone else.

So while Beth was at home dying, the mum stayed there trying to help everyone else who were in similar or worse situations. (Not that I have anything against her, I mean JO felt like she had it all under control, which was why the mother – I’m referring to her like that because I don’t know her name – didn’t come home until Beth was knocking on heavens door.

And while Turbo was trying to enjoy the game of his life, (you know, until the bomb exploded and the world ended) sadly distracted by the fact that he had no-one there to support him, except for his mindless fans, and his friends who were playing along with him, his dad was busy overseas trying to save the world and make it a better place by “saving the kids”. The only kid he didn’t save was the one he was formally responsible for.

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So basically, if I were to continue with this reflection, it would just be a praise for every second of the movie, and because I have gotten all the important stuff out of the way, I am going to leave it at that so you don’t completely hate me for my lack of being concise!

Anyway, feel free to leave any comments on your opinion or if you want to add anything completely random about another thing you’ve noticed about Little Women, and I would love to hear feedback and constructive criticism on how to make my writing more interesting! But remember, nothing mean or aggressive, or there will be consequences.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope you will come and visit my post again! Until next time, with love, Emma!