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Me: I guess it’s time to finally watch Medici season 2

Inner me, acutely aware of my penchant for antagonists:

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I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

I’D BE RESPECTED IF I COULDN’T BE LOVED

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moments that stopped me in my tracks: amy and laurie in Little Women (2019)

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when jo march said, “you know, i just…i just feel like…women…they—they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts. and they’ve got ambition and they’ve got talent as well as just beauty. and i’m so sick of people saying that—that love is just all that a woman is fit for. i’m so sick of it! but i’m so—so lonely.”

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Ok why is no one talking about the scene in Little Women when Marmee say “you remind me of myself” and Jo says “but you’re never angry” and Marmee looks straight forward and says “I’m angry almost every day of my life” because oh my god. It was so honest and so raw and so emotional and beautiful and mature and the fact that this adaptation gave Marmee actual depth and made her a human being who struggling but being strong for her daughters instead just of making her a saint. And how does Greta Gerwig capture mothers so well?

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Little Women (2019)

@nasa-prica

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nobody:

me, waking up at 2 am: i have a mind and a soul as well as a heart and i’ve got ambition and i’ve got talent as well as just beauty.......but i'm so lonely

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Meg and John ❤  James Norton and Emma Watson in Little Women

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I remember crying a lot when reading the book. Can’t wait to sob over the movie

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“I don’t want you to go, I want you to stay.”

LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

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[Friedrich] sits down and plays Bach - it is beautiful and elegant. Jo watches him, moved and deeply happy.

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Amy: You're a very nice boy, but...

Laurie: I'm not a boy, I'm a MAN!

Amy: Well you're actually a bitch but I was trying to be nice.

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little women is absolutely such a masterpiece. i have many things to say about it but don’t know how to articulate it. but: watching it as a writer, as a sister, as a young sibling, as a friend, as an artist, and of course, as a woman…it hits you in so many spheres and places, and in the script there’s such emphasis on the pain and joy of being known but that is how i felt throughout the entire film. and the nostalgia and grief of looking back on childhood after losing it? it hits different.

it’s just beautifully made and articulate, made with such love and care and trust. amazing. where are the oscars.

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Little women (both the 2019 movie and the book) brilliantly capture very specific emotions and situations. These are some of my favorites:

That feeling you get when you start thinking about all the people you’ve turned down romantically because you knew you didn’t and could never love them but now… YOU’RE SO LONELY! so you torment yourself thinking you were stupid, too stubborn, too quick to say no, that maybe conforming wouldn’t be as bad as this growing, menacing loneliness.

That lost feeling of possibility. When you were young everything was exciting and fun and the future was unknown and full of infinite possibilities. You felt like your chest could burst at any minute from all that restless, blind hope. But now you’re older, and you LIVE in that future, and… there’s nothing in it. All you want to do is go back to a specific moment in which you were particularly happy, be held by it and stay there forever.

The painful truth that maybe you’re not as good at something as you thought you were. Realizing that you’re good at many things but you don’t particularly stand out in any of them. Maybe you’re just average and you have to make peace with it.

If you don’t dream or do things outside of your familiar environment, of what you know, of what you’re comfortable with; you’ll stay in the same place forever. And yes, maybe you tell yourself that that’s what you really want but… is it? or you’re just afraid to try something different?

Some people will pretend to want the best for you but the truth is, behind every “kindness” or “well meaned comment”, there’s malice and envy (@Meg’s friends). You have to stand up for yourself, be true to who you are and don’t spend energy trying to impress people who take joy in your misfortunes.  

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One thing I really liked about the 2019 Little Women is that Laurie’s love for Jo comes off more like misplaced/misinterpreted (but no less intense) platonic feelings rather than unrequited/one-sided romantic love like the 1994 movie. That kind of helps smooth out the transition from Laurie’s love for Jo, which seems childish and misguided here, to his more mature, fuller, and realistic love for Amy. 

I hated Amy/Laurie in the 1994 movie because I couldn’t believe that the boy who was so in love with Jo that he’d flee to Europe to sulk would just “replace” her with her sister and everything would be fine. In the 2019 adaptation, it’s much, much clearer that Laurie loves the March family and what they represent, and Jo is part of that. It’s also obvious that his love for Amy is something else entirely, compared to his love for the family and for Jo too. I also really liked that Amy’s always loved Laurie, and that she brings up being second to Jo. They successfully addressed all the reasons the canon relationships didn’t work for me in other adaptations.

I really liked how they handled these relationships and while the 1994 version is still my forever fave, I think I prefer this adaptation’s take on those relationships. 

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This scene had me bawling my eyes out like a baby in the theater and then I went home and just thought about it more and cried again

“So many movies and stories give us characters who are either too glamorous or too terrible to relate to. So many heroes have bravery and grit that seem too challenging for us to muster. But in Gerwig’s Little Women, Jo March was the kind of brave hero that I needed, the kind of hero marketers didn’t initially want me to see.

So yes, Jo March: women have minds and hearts, dreams and hopes. We have ambition and independence, beauty and talent. We are feminists that demand and deserve respect. But we’ve got hearts that long with loneliness, too. It’s not wrong to feel lonely even when you’re lucky, and it’s not wrong to have needs. It’s human.”

- Little Women and the Truth We’re Too Scared to Say