triumph of Imagination

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2006)

Barrie is a very well-known writer that is in a writing-stuck: he has no inspiration. This changes when he meets Davies family, which will make him recover inspiration and make him to create the wonderful world of Neverland; writing the very well known book "Peter Pan" With a great directing the film shows us the inside world of the writer, being more time in his imagination rather than in reality, which creates a world of fantasy and enjoyment. Actors are spectacular, specially Johnny Depp (his nomination is totally deserved) and Dustin Hoffman (Hook again?). The dressing and the photography is quite good also, as we are in front of one of the best films in 2004. The film claims for the triumph of fantasy, as if you don't like this world, just imagine a new one and live there (this can not always be good); and also the film has a remembering that, despite the fact that you can live in other world, there is, here, the real world and you cannot avoid that if you cannot life here, probably there you will not be happy at all (or not for a long time). The film is good, but the starting is a little slow and I've missed at least some comment's about the darkest aspect of Barrie: the adultery, pedophilia... All in the puritan Victorian age, the same that made Wilde to commit suicide; a larger mention of these aspects I think could have done this film to be better.