From the beginning, the film Peter Pan and Wendyby David Lowery available on disney+, makes it clear that it will be focused on the eternal child hero. Of course, the figure of Peter (Alexander Molony) continues to be central to the plot. But, on this occasion, the story also delves into Wendy (Ever Anderson Jovovic) and, especially, in Hook (Jude Law).
Both characters stop being simple additions to the context that surrounds the leader of the Lost Children to become something more. Specific, Wendy, to which the plot provides new facets. The script, signed by the same director together with Toby Halbrooks, Ted Sears and Erdman Penne, reviews the story of James Matthew Barrie from a new point of view. So the frail girl traveling to Neverland is now an impetuous spirit full of vitality. The change also sets the tone of the film from its first sequences.
The character is no longer a passive witness to what is happening around him. Wendy She doesn’t want to go to the girls’ boarding school she’s destined for, or live like her mother did. Much less being the exemplary older sister that she is required of. The accent on her strong personality is a symbolic announcement of the way the narrative will tell her story.
Peter Pan and Wendy
Peter Pan and Wendy, by David Lowery, tries to get away from the mistakes of other live action and proposes, from its first scenes, a deeper exploration of its characters. Especially Wendy, to whom the script provides a strong personality that will set the pace and tone of the film. It also approaches Peter Pan and turns the eternal child hero into a figure full of chiaroscuro, much more intriguing than other versions. However, the good intentions of the plot fail due to its haste and its poor visual section. For its finale, the film drops any pretense of personality and ends in the midst of a collection of clichés that disappoint in their triviality.
A very special version
Peter Pan and Wendy try not to make the common mistakes of the most recent live action of the study. Therefore, as much as possible is separated from the rhythm of the animated film released in 1953. Also from its aesthetics and, even, from the way of narrating the journey that begins with the windows open to a fantasy world.
It is no longer about exploring the eternal symbolic battle between growing up or being a child forever. Peter Pan and Wendy explores the sense of duty, affection and the way in which maturity is part of another type of adventure.
Which transforms the purpose of its heroes and villains. Each one must find their place, the way to understand themselves and the story that made them what they are. A journey that deepens, and even bleak, as the film progresses.
Peter Pan and Wendy adapts to the new generations
In the script, neither Peter Pan it is an amazing creature. In an original metareference game, his figure is part of the stories that Wendy He listened throughout his childhood. So much so that he knows in detail the existence of the ageless child, his power and the world he inhabits.
Hence Peter Pan and Wendy plays with the idea that everything that happens could be —or not— an unreal adventure. But gradually, this ambiguous perception disappears in favor of a greater journey. the one of Wendy through an amazing landscape and the Peter Pan by remembering his true story.
Together, the duo of protagonists form a strange alliance that surprises with its dynamics. Wendy she is not impressed with the boy’s powers able to fly thanks to pleasant thoughts. Peter he is a figure of power in a territory where everything seems to depend on his joy and cheekiness.
In the argument of Peter Pan and Wendy, its protagonist is not a mystery, but a leader full of charisma and ability to surprise. As innocent as slightly sinister, the reinvention of the classic character undergoes a review of what he embodies. One part of him tends toward an angry stubbornness, while another part toward an almost naive vulnerability.
Neverland in Peter Pan and Wendy
Once Peter appears, the feature film rushes forward until the moment when Wendy you make the decision to fly to a region you only imagined. Haste harms the character of Bell (Yara Shahidi), which is minimized to a curiosity without much relevance. The central character of magic in the original story is, in David Lowery’s version, a figure who has little weight or importance.
The country of Never again in Peter Pan and Wendy it is uncharted territory that the director’s camera turns into a children’s paradise. But, either due to the excess of digital effects or because the plot speeds up its pace in the second section, there is not much to highlight in the visual section. With generic-looking hills, roads and an endless sea, the film loses its identity as it explores the fantastical land.
A pirate with a lot to tell
Of course, Peter Pan he has an enemy to fear in his own world. Captain Hook (Jude Law) is an evil presence, but also an oddly grieving one. It is his sequences that provide character and personality to a feature film that is based on the actor’s performance. The Briton gives his villain an almost tragic dimension, like the last abandoned child in a lonely country. An essentially painful perception about the journey that led him to become an evil pirate.
Nevertheless, Peter Pan and Wendy misses the opportunity to delve deeper into the dilemma. More interested in enhancing the rebellion of Wendy and the painful background of Peter, forget one of your points of greatest interest. The pirate who is actually the symbol of darkness in Neverland. In its final stretch, the redemption of the villain and a predictable resurrection turn the plot into a bunch of clichés. Instead of exploring the loss of innocence or the aspiration to the good, as seemed to happen, the film opts for a happy ending.
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Despite having more quality than others live action of the disney, Peter Pan and Wendy it’s gentle entertainment without too many ambitions. What is lamented in the hint of all the points that his argument could explore and did not.