{"id":25644,"date":"2020-01-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=25644"},"modified":"2020-01-09T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:35:55","slug":"little-women-boasts-a-wonderful-cast-and-a-timeless-story-of-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=25644","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little Women\u2019 boasts a wonderful cast and a timeless story of sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-10-Little-Women-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-10-Little-Women-movie-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-10-Little-Women-movie-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By MARK VIOLA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, let\u2019s get this out of the way first. I\u2019ve never read\nLouisa May Alcott\u2019s \u201cLittle Women.\u201d I\u2019ve also never seen any of the numerous\nfilm adaptations of the book. That is, until the most recent one, directed by\nGreta Gerwig (\u201cLady Bird\u201d). As such, I went into the movie blind as far as\nexpectations or prior knowledge of the story, and I can\u2019t compare this film to\nthe many others that came before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I can say, however, is that this movie is quite good,\nwith intriguing characters, wonderful performances and an interesting\nstorytelling style that makes the 150-year-old story feel quite fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those, like myself (prior to last week), who are not familiar with the story, \u201cLittle Women\u201d follows the lives of the four March sisters, including Jo (Saoirse Ronan, \u201cBrooklyn\u201d), Meg (Emma Watson, \u201cHarry Potter\u201d), Amy (Florence Pugh, \u201cMidsommar\u201d) and Beth (Eliza Scanlen, \u201cSharp Objects\u201d), both as teenagers and a few years later in the 20s as they begin to strike out on their own paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gerwig, who also wrote the screenplay, takes the story and\ntells it out of order, beginning with Jo later in her journey alone in New York\nCity and uses her reflections as flashbacks to show us what happened before.\nThis technique really works well, and Gerwig masterfully weaves the story back\nand forth, connecting moments both past and present that fit thematically both\nfor the overall plot, as well as individual characters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MARK VIOLA So, let\u2019s get this out of the way first. I\u2019ve never read Louisa May Alcott\u2019s \u201cLittle Women.\u201d I\u2019ve also never seen any of the numerous film adaptations of the book. That is, until the most recent one, directed by Greta Gerwig (\u201cLady Bird\u201d). As such, I went into the movie blind as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-25644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25646,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644\/revisions\/25646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}