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Little Women (2019 film) from the book by Louisa May Alcott
Directed by Greta Gerwig
Nonton di Netflix
My rating 4 of 5 stars (3 gemuk sih sebetulnya)
★★★★☆
Blurb:
Little Women is a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. It chronicles the lives of the March sisters—Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth—in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 19th century. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper. (Wikipedia)
Ulasan:
I love Beth ðŸ˜❤️
Filmnya pakai alur maju-mundur. Awalnya agak bingung kok bagian awalnya
udah menceritakan bagian akhir buku. Kalau yang di terjemahan malah udah
bagian akhir buku kedua. Tapi ternyata alurnya dibuat maju-mundur. Entah
kalau yang menontonnya belum baca bukunya
bakalan ngeh sama jalan ceritanya atau nggak, tapi
menurutku setelah baca bukunya pun, filmnya tetep berkesan.
Justru waktu dibuat maju-mundur malah jadi nggak bosan. Waktu mendengarkan
cerita, kesannya hanya seperti jurnal. Penulisnya menceritakan berbagai
kejadian yang mungkin tidak berkaitan satu sama lain, hanya tokohnya saja
yang sama. Alurnya yaa, alur kehidupan si tokoh yang diceritakan. Dengan
dibuat maju-mundur, sepertinya kisah dilebur dengan keadaan masa lalu yang
sesuai dengan keadaan masa sekarang yang sedang diceritakan dalam film.
Akhir filmnya agak terkesan menggantung. Tapi memang akhir bukunya sih
seperti itu, jadi yaa nggak terlalu masalah buatku. Walaupun demikian, dalam
film sepertinya tokoh Jo yang diceritakan dalam buku sengaja dilebur dengan
keadaan penulisnya yang juga memiliki jalan hidup yang nyaris
serupa. Lha wong si penulis bikin cerita ini berdasarkan
hidupnya, yaa jelas aja mirip. Tapi akhir cerita Jo dan si penulis cukup
berbeda, karena si penulis tidak menikah. Akhir cerita Jo berbeda karena
editornya yang minta ternyata. Hahahahaa...
Tapi aku banyak nangis nontonnya. Hiks. Mungkin juga karena aku baca bukunya
ya. Kalau nggak baca mungkin aku nggak bakalan banyak nangis. Oh Beth... ðŸ˜
Wikipedia page:
Directed by | Greta Gerwig |
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Screenplay by | Greta Gerwig |
Based on |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |
Produced by | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Yorick Le Saux |
Edited by | Nick Houy |
Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time
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135 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cast:
- Saoirse Ronan as Josephine "Jo" March
- Emma Watson as Margaret "Meg" March
- Florence Pugh as Amy March
- Eliza Scanlen as Elizabeth "Beth" March
- Laura Dern as Marmee March
- Timothée Chalamet as Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
- Meryl Streep as Aunt March
- Tracy Letts as Mr. Dashwood
- Bob Odenkirk as Father March
- James Norton as John Brooke
- Louis Garrel as Friedrich Bhaer
- Chris Cooper as Mr. Laurence
- Jayne Houdyshell as Hannah
- Rafael Silva as Friedrich's friend
- Dash Barber as Fred Vaughn
- Hadley Robinson as Sallie Gardiner Moffat
- Abby Quinn as Annie Moffat
- Maryann Plunkett as Mrs. Kirke
- Edward Fletcher as Mr. Laurence's servant
- Sasha Frolova as Mrs. Hummel
Tentang penulis:
Louisa May Alcott
Born
in Germantown, Pennsylvania, The United States, November 29,
1832
Died
March 06, 1888
Website
Genre
Influences
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth and May were educated by their father, philosopher/ teacher, Bronson Alcott and raised on the practical Christianity of their mother, Abigail May.
Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside (now Hawthorne’s "Wayside").
Like her character, Jo March in Little Women, young Louisa was a tomboy: "No boy could be my friend till I had beaten him in a race," she claimed, " and no girl if she refused to climb trees, leap fences...."
For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a rich imagination and often her stories became melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays, "the villains, ghosts, bandits, and disdainful queens."
At age 15, troubled by the poverty that plagued her family, she vowed: "I will do something by and by. Don’t care what, teach, sew, act, write, anything to help the family; and I’ll be rich and famous and happy before I die, see if I won’t!"
Confronting a society that offered little opportunity to women seeking employment, Louisa determined "...I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world." Whether as a teacher, seamstress, governess, or household servant, for many years Louisa did any work she could find.
Louisa’s career as an author began with poetry and short stories that appeared in popular magazines. In 1854, when she was 22, her first book Flower Fables was published. A milestone along her literary path was Hospital Sketches (1863) based on the letters she had written home from her post as a nurse in Washington, DC as a nurse during the Civil War.
When Louisa was 35 years old, her publisher Thomas Niles in Boston asked her to write "a book for girls." Little Women was written at Orchard House from May to July 1868. The novel is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age and is set in Civil War New England. Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality; a living, breathing person rather than the idealized stereotype then prevalent in children’s fiction.
In all, Louisa published over 30 books and collections of stories. She died on March 6, 1888, only two days after her father, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.