film review
Little Women
Gerwig shuffles the chronology into a chiasmus, letting childhood and adulthood rhyme, and promotes Amy’s ‘marriage is an economic proposition’ speech to the rank of thesis. Jo selling her hair and Jo selling her stories: the same transaction, differently dressed.
what it left me with
You are permitted to want love and to remain the author of your own life; the book insists, with genial obstinacy, that the two ambitions can share a roof.
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