What s the best kind of movie mum?
Good or evil, I like one we sense exists outside the margins of the movie. That s true of any character.
They re most interesting when they re so complicated that the movie can t capture all of their dimensions, and we get only tantalising glimpses.
I m thinking of Margaret Marmee March in
Little Women, who raises extraordinary daughters without much help from their father but who s also an activist with unrealised dreams. I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, says Marmee in Louisa May Alcott s book and Greta Gerwig s movie.
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What s the best kind of movie mom?
Good or evil, I like one we sense exists outside the margins of the movie. That s true of any character. They re most interesting when they re so complicated that the movie can t capture all of their dimensions, and we get only tantalizing glimpses. I m thinking of Margaret Marmee March in Little Women, who raises extraordinary daughters without much help from their father but who s also an activist with unrealized dreams.