Great Movie - a must see

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2004)

I was fortunate enough to catch a preview of this last weekend. It is one of the most touching films I have ever seen. Both Depp and Winslet are excellent. Depp masterfully portrays J.M. Barrie as both a romantic and a realest. Truly a formidable task. The juxtaposition of childhood and adult themes throughout the film is acted by Depp with introspection and emotion. Peter Pan is about a boy who never wanted to grow up and Depp plays this coquettish nuance to the hilt. In many scenes it is almost like Depp is thinking both like a child and like an adult. He tries to imagine how life would be if maturity stopped at eleven years old. This is obviously one of the themes of the movie which I feel truly gives it an enduring quality. This film is like Peter Pan trying to come to grips with growing up, and bringing as much of Neverland with him as he could.