Neverland
(Finding Neverland)
Etats-Unis
2004
Réal. : Marc Forster
Avec : Johnny Depp

 

The story of the writer of Peter Pan James Barrie played by Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp is a phenomenal actor once again. The story follows Barrie as he struggles to write a play that will appeal to the London public and as he falls in love with a family of three boys whose imaginative adventures and struggles with death animate the symbols of his far fetched yet now world famous story. The story is rich with strong dramatic scenes, sentiment, symbol and thought. It might have failed as overly-sentimental shite, but it did not, much like Peter Pan itself. You want to believe with your heart, and because you are able to (thanks to Depp and the solid direction), the story takes off and flies. This is a major Hollywood picture that did not totally sell out, and it has all the advantages of big money cinema, without the usual faults. Now, I am not from English, but I think that Depp was very convincing as a Brit. The word "play" is what one calls a piece of theater in English, but the people of London seem to have forgotten how to play altogether. They fear death and each other and not fitting in, their life seems to suffocates them and any love that might have been otherwise possible. Beneath the severity of English society, it seems that all need this "play" and to find a place where their dreams and memories will allow them to live forever.

Andrew F.
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