“Little women” - review of the book and the movies made by Raluca Tugui

I believe that at the first time I watched “Little women” was around 7 years ago. The
production was old, from 1994, but I still found it beautiful. When I heard that they are going to
make another movie for us, a new image of ”Little women”, I was thrilled. I don’t remember
exactly when I watched the new version, but I liked it in that time very much. Liked it and not
like it, because now I don’t watch films anymore, one because I don’t find them to be as good as
the used to be and two because I like living outside the Hollywood unreal dreams that catch the
eyes of European teens and take their time away from far more beautiful activities than sitting
comfortably for hours in front of a camera and waiting to see the end of a story that isn’t quite
impacting real life.

Anyways, I thought that I still could pick a movie that had great screening and a nice plot.
I don’t see the story of the little women just through the eyes of “Little women”(2019), but
through the book I read as well and the old screening made back in ‘94.

The plot follows Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March who are raised in genteel poverty by
their loving mother, Marmee, in a quiet Massachusetts town while their father serves as an
army chaplain during the American Civil War. They befriend Theodore Lawrence (Laurie), the
lonely grandson of a rich old man next door. The vital force of the family is Jo, a headstrong
tomboy who is the emotional centre of the book. In the course of the novel, beautiful, vain Meg
marries Laurie’s tutor, John Brooke, and starts her own family; quiet, sickly Beth dies
from scarlet fever; artistic Amy marries Laurie after he is turned down by Jo; and Jo marries
Professor Bhaer, whom she meets while living in a boardinghouse, and together they set up a
school for boys.

The message the movies and the books is a beautiful one. They teach viewers and readers
about family and how to hold dear to it if you have one, they teach us about the beautiful and
harsh life of women in the 1860s, they teach us about love, about loss and how people cope
significantly different to it.
 As for me, I believe that these kind of stories are worth mentioning to kids and teens because
they do shape their way of viewing the world not as a whole, but as a puzzle with different parts,
never two the same. I recommend that people first try reading the book, even if it’s quite long.
The movies are not as good as the book, but they are something similar.