Little Women (2019) | Full-Length Reaction
Added 2025-01-23 01:39:04 +0000 UTCBrilliant
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I'm a bit late watching your reaction but I loved your thoughtful commentary. As someone who is aro/ace Jo's character resonates with me very deeply. There is almost no aromatic or asexual representation in media and finding a romantic partner is often portrayed as the only true way to happiness. Similar experiences in real life where people tend to tell you that eventually you'll find the right person almost as if they're pitying you. It can feel quite isolating sometimes, like you're missing out in life. I have to keep reminding myself that there are so many different things and people in life that bring me happiness and love outside of any romance or sex.
Robin
2025-11-01 20:46:39 +0000 UTCIf you like the story, there are other books related to this one. I came across a book called March by Geraldine Brooks which tells the story of Mr March during his time away from the girls (Little women!) in 1862. It was a really fast and good read by a Pulitzer Prize winning author! Really enjoyed this retelling and your reaction. Great way to spend a snowy day!
Etta Eskridge
2025-02-17 20:07:20 +0000 UTCThis might sound strange but I love the movie posts because often times I hate watching movies alone (opposed to shows) and this helps me actually get things off my watchlist.
Akaash Sidhu
2025-01-27 23:17:22 +0000 UTCOmg, omg!! I would die of happiness!!! As a redhead with too much imagination, Anne was always my guiding light. My mom read me the books as a kid, and I loved the 80s miniseries. But the new Anne with an E is *perfect*. I would say Amybeth McNulty is the absolute perfect Anne, but the 80s Jonathan Crombie was the perfect Gilbert. Oh, Anne with an E! Such a great idea!!
Lola Lirola
2025-01-25 01:24:47 +0000 UTCyess!
mariana 🌊
2025-01-24 23:57:46 +0000 UTCoooh its so good!!
Lady Tired
2025-01-24 16:48:27 +0000 UTC1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice 👀
Amber Walker
2025-01-24 03:40:35 +0000 UTCI think you would like Anne with an E on Netflix
Amber Walker
2025-01-24 03:39:54 +0000 UTC🌸🧡
Franklin
2025-01-24 02:05:32 +0000 UTCYou're welcome Melissa. I hope you make that visit sooner than later
Franklin
2025-01-24 02:05:18 +0000 UTC🧡🧡
Franklin
2025-01-24 02:04:18 +0000 UTCdamn that has been on my list for a long time. Sounds good
Franklin
2025-01-24 02:04:06 +0000 UTCI love how you talk about art and how it has changed over the years. Yes putting those two timelines of Beth recovery and death was so heartbreaking. So well done
Franklin
2025-01-24 02:03:15 +0000 UTCYes to Pride & Prejudice! Great idea!
Jenny_M
2025-01-24 02:02:09 +0000 UTCdamn reading all this adds so much to the movie that I just watched. And always.. That's my answer to if you can brag. Always
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:59:44 +0000 UTClol almost till the end of the movie 😆 so funny. And right when the movie was about to tell me as well. Thank you thank you
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:56:33 +0000 UTCThanks for letting me know
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:54:36 +0000 UTCI love this. I'm happy you are passing the book along
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:50:57 +0000 UTCThat is so true. I'm glad I've seen both
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:49:07 +0000 UTCYou're so welcome
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:47:48 +0000 UTCYes indeed
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:47:38 +0000 UTCThanks Charlie. I loved this input
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:47:30 +0000 UTCThat is very good to know
Franklin
2025-01-24 01:46:04 +0000 UTCYes!! That would be so much funnn!! Maybe after Derry Girls?
Lola Lirola
2025-01-23 14:38:16 +0000 UTCI bet, based on your reaction to this, that you'd very much enjoy Bridgerton.
Jessi
2025-01-23 14:15:17 +0000 UTCAppreciate your comments per usual; you are very thoughtful and compassionate. I don't disagree it's nice to have a friend who will keep you grounded in your own authentic spirit but I hear a certain quiet disdain or sorrow in Amy's response to his ideas/comments because he says what she's thinking, but isn't allowed to say or do and it makes her defend her own limitations as sensible. When, really, it isn't that she hasn't thought or felt those things, in fact she has long held entire vivid dreams about those things (which more of the film makes clear as it goes along). However, as women it's enforced by men and women that they have a lot to lose in not conforming, and assimilating in these ways, while heartbreaking, is considered necessary. In that sense I do think it matters he's not a woman giving cavalier encouragement to her, without fully understanding the context and pressures of expectations placed on her and the cost of living her life as she would most enjoy. I do agree he isn't meant to be a savior though, and is speaking as sort of their conscience and good friend, and glad you paused to mention that. Great reaction as always!
Charlie Ito
2025-01-23 14:13:56 +0000 UTCThat was such a good movie omg 🥰
Julie
2025-01-23 13:50:19 +0000 UTCAs they say, "Great minds . . ."
Melissa
2025-01-23 10:42:40 +0000 UTCMelissa, I swear you read my mind!
Amanda Hill
2025-01-23 06:56:10 +0000 UTCThank you for reacting to this! It’s been a while since I’ve seen and it was so good to see again.
Amanda Hill
2025-01-23 06:54:48 +0000 UTCSorry to keep spamming this movie (can you tell I love it?), but I see a lot of ideas here that were later in Barbie: Jo's monologue about "Women have minds and souls, and ambition as well as beauty, and I hate that they say love is all that women are good for, but at the same time I'm so lonely!!" is a shorter (and, imo, much better) version of America Ferrera's monologue in Barbie. Amy's discussion about what she's allowed (and expected) to do as a woman in the world, the discussion about who gets to be called a genius, and even the discussion with the editor about owning her own art... are all things that Greta examined later in Barbie as well.
Lola Lirola
2025-01-23 06:29:08 +0000 UTCI was first gifted as a Christmas present from my mother and father the book Little women I fell in love with it. I was 10 years old. She followed up with two more sequels one little men and Joe’s boys also purchased by both my parents one for my birthday when I was 16 and again The following Christmas with Joe’s boys. I fell in love with all three books long before they ever became a movie adaptation I have found this version to be closer to what I pictured in my mind when I read the books over the original movie both were excellent in acting, but this version of the story Matched my internal vision of each character superbly. I still have these three books and with five granddaughters, they have been lovingly red my newest and only great grandson is only two years old, but I am sure he may find great value in the book themselves. To know that these were written in the late 1800s And have still captured the minds and hearts of young readers is a testament to Louisa May Alcott superior writing. The director of this movie and the cinematographer did great justice too the novel. I am so grateful that we got to watch it with you.
Laura Thate
2025-01-23 06:21:41 +0000 UTCYes! I loved when he wondered aloud why Jo felt that way even though her parents were so loving... and it took him just 0.2 seconds to realize as he was thinking out loud. It's such a relief to be here.
Lola Lirola
2025-01-23 06:14:39 +0000 UTCfun fact: the original story of little women was a book published in 1868. the author, louisa may alcott, wanted jo to end the book unmarried, but her publishers made her change the ending. that's what the end of this movie is paying homage to. it isn't the ending of the book in print, but it is the ending that the she wanted and would have written in a more liberated time period.
kachow6969
2025-01-23 05:01:30 +0000 UTCalways interesting seeing mens' perspectives on this movie. it taking you so long to realize that jo never actually gave any indication she was interested in laurie romantically was so funny. i appreciate your understanding of all of the sisters' perspectives far more than a lot of other male reactions i've seen.
kachow6969
2025-01-23 04:59:18 +0000 UTCCan I brag just a little? I translated Louisa May Alcott's work into Spanish! Not Little Women, of course, that's a classic that has been translated for years, but a minor work of her, called actually "Work", where she tells an autobiography of her small jobs. This one is also very autobiographical: Alcott had three sisters and they were daughters of a Transcendentalist philosopher, who believed in living frugally and in contact with nature (and often had to beg friends for money) but often hosted intellectuas and creatives like Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged Louisa to write, which was unusual back then. But they were often poor. Louisa always wanted to be a boy, and used to go by Lou, just like Jo(sephine) goes by Jo. She knew what it was to have to find work to sustain herself, which was difficult for women: she tutored kids, she sewed rich people's clothes, she did laundry, she was a companion for a mean rich old woman. A lot of those experiences are in the book! She also did start writing "spicy" stories before Little Women! She used a pseudonym, and it was mostly mercenary work to pay the bills: stories about pirates and damsels in distress and swordfights and such (like the ones Baher criticizes, and she kinda hated writing). Little Women was her first success. Louisa was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She, like Jo, was never interested in men (and, from what she tells in "Work", was very interested in women instead). Her sister Elizabeth is the basis for Beth, and actually died yound from scarlet fever, as depicted in the book. Her sister Anna is the basis for Meg. She did want to be an actress when younger, but actually became a teacher. She was the one who opened a school for 20 pupils in Boston. Her marriage is very similar to the one in the book, but John wasn't a tutor, he was an actor that she met while she joined a troupe performing small sketches to support the Union Army for a while. She had two sons, who later worked publishing books. She died of old age. Her sister Abigail May, the basis for Amy, was actually a painter! She illustrated the first edition of Little Women, and went on to study and live in Paris. They did have an often competitive and kinda mutually jealous relationship. She didn't actually marry rich, though, she married a violinist who was 16 years younger than her! Her painting masterpiece is said to be the portrait of a Black woman, a rare subject at the time. She had a daughter, Louisa (Lulu), named after her sister, but sadly died shortly after, from birth complications. Louisa raised Lulu until her own death. Lulu got to live to 96, though, she died in 1975! A completely different world from the 1879 one she was born in.
Lola Lirola
2025-01-23 04:42:25 +0000 UTCI’m back let’s get started 🍿😋
Nawal
2025-01-23 04:06:40 +0000 UTCThe absolute gut-punch for me in this movie is the juxtaposition of the moment Jo comes down the stairs and Beth has recovered, with the time she comes down and Beth... has not. Just for that, this version became the best in my opinion. The split timeline really makes it much deeper! (In the book, Beth recovers in part 1, then dies in part 2, which was published years later. Putting both moments together is so devastating.)
Lola Lirola
2025-01-23 04:02:17 +0000 UTCRegarding the multiple timelines structure of this movie: the book is told linearly (basically the book was the "past" times, and then Alcott, the author, wrote a sequel that is the "present" times), and all the other movie adaptations (of whiche there are so many! including one with Katherine Hepburn and another one with Liz Taylor as Amy!) have always told the story linearly. So this one is a new approach. And I wonder if on the 21st Century we've kept so much culture that we now understand our stories as part of an inevitably layered accumulation of experience. Because a lot of things that used to be ephemeral now remain forever: music was played, but not recorded, a theatre play was done one night, and never again was the same, but a movie stays, and everyone can see it, even decades later, and a remake just adds another layer in the same story, but does not replace it, so art has to be much more in conversation with other art than ever. And we also record a lot more of our lives: the possibility of capturing random moments was impossible 100 years ago, and now our phones are bursting with pictures of breakfasts. So we are a lot more aware of all the moments superimposing themselves to form a life. So linear stories seem more constrained, and multiple ones feel more authentic to how we live and understand things now. My therapist once told me that the process of living is a spiral: you return to the same themes and preoccupations and issues again and again, but you're never in the same place; sometimes higher and sometimes lower. Until hopefully you learn something. I'm still in it.
Lola Lirola
2025-01-23 04:00:03 +0000 UTCSince you liked this classic, I'd like to recommend another classic romance, "Pride and Prejudice."
Melissa
2025-01-23 03:55:31 +0000 UTCSooo excited for Little Women!!! Finishing FoxTaco’s Mayfair witches reaction then hopping on over here!
Nawal
2025-01-23 03:55:07 +0000 UTCSuch a feel good story. Thank you. At the top of my bucket list is a literary trip to Massachusettes to see Orchard House, home of Louisa May Alcott who wrote "Little Women." There are many other authors' homes I hope to see.
Melissa
2025-01-23 03:49:35 +0000 UTCThank you SO much! I just adore this movie (I grew up on the 90s version with Winona Ryder but this one FEELS like that one felt to little-girl me.)
Jessi
2025-01-23 02:13:44 +0000 UTC
