Product: Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
Rating: 2.0
A shocking heartbreak
To a stranger who has never been in the world of L.M. Montgomery's novels, this movie would be systematically constructed, with enough romance and intrigue to satisfy anyone. However, myself, being someone who has read and loved all of L.M. Montgomery's books since I was young, this movie has been a heartbreak. I had in my heart a perfect mirror of Avonlea and all of Anne Shirley's doings. Marilla and Rachel Lynde lived in Green Gables while Anne and Gilbert moved to Four Winds. There was no war, no going to New York (which inflicted a horrible modernish streak to the setting of dear, old Avonlea). To add events at the end of Montgomery's books I could tolerate, but to smash them in the middle does not fit. I was in a state of shock; my mirror smashed with events that I could never imagine would have existed. A stranger could never see a crack in this mirror, but a kindred spirit can.