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I did not expect to cry that much over The Good Place finale. I hadn't been as impressed with it for a while as I was at the beginning, but I kept watching it because I was still so in love with the characters. But wow. That finale was so moving and I haven't cried that much while watching anything in a very long while.

(The use of "Spiegel im Spiegel" was an attack on me personally.)

So I have now seen Gerwig's Little Women...

...and never let it be said that I can't admit when I'm wrong.

Some background for the new people: the 1994 version of Little Women is one of my all-time favorite movies. Like, seen it so many times I can quote the whole thing, watch it whenever I'm with my mom and sister, would play the score at my wedding were I ever to get married, that level of love. I think it is truly a perfect movie except for the casting of adult!Amy. I am very devoted to this film, okay?

So when I saw that there was going to be a remake, I was annoyed. Mostly because WHY? but also because I didn't think any director who would cast Emma Watson could possibly make a good version of Little Women. I decided I just wasn't going to see it and was going to pretend it didn't exist.

But then...people whose taste I trust started seeing it. And liking it. A lot. Enough that I realized I needed to at least give it a chance.

So it finally came to the uni cinema and I saw it tonight in a sold-out theater. And I loved it. It wasn't flawless, and I didn't love it in a replace-1994-way, but in a I'm-glad-this-one-exists too way. I really did not think that there was anything new that could be said through this story. It's been remade so many times (and so well the last time) that I felt that a remake was in the vein of many other remakes that have no purpose for existing and say absolutely nothing new. I was wrong. This version was true to the events of the book, the spirit of the girls, and yet it managed to feel like its own piece of art. I'm really impressed.


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