Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 4.0
some of the best outshines the poor
I can see why some people don't like this movie. I, at first, didn't either. In fact, I still don't like the entire "spy story" element and all that. Just a teensy weensy too unrealistic.But the rest of the movie... it's very beautiful in a way. Maybe if they concentrated more on the other parts instead of the war, people would like it even thought it didn't follow the books.I never read much of the books, but I pashionately enjoyed the first two movies. I saw them when I was much younger, and the visual and artistic beauty is something that lives with me.That's maybe what makes Anne 3 so painful. We expected her to be the same Anne that we saw when we were younger. Someone we could escape to. When our lifes have gotten harder and more painful as we have grown, we always wanted to see that Anne never changed.But we have, and so has she. We can never go back to the world of the first two stories. It is gone. Anne admits that several times in the film. It is a great work of visual art in the end. They show Green Gables, they show the same scenery from the first two. But it is that sad end of a summer day feel. That it is over. We must move on.I loved Anne 3 because it made me realize so many things about changing and accepting. I cried. I guess I could have done without the silly spy story. But the first and last parts of the movie are wonderful.And we can still pop in the DVDs from the first two. They still exist. But I think Anne 3 is a truthful and beautiful (if someone stifled by silly whims of the writers) ending to the trilogy. It has never been the same Anne from the books... it is a different Anne. And I think this ending befits this Anne.