Little Women 2019 Review

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Whatever the original book said or its author intended Jo March in the 2019 movie is such a mirror to what an aro-spec experiences, I cried lots with her, I don’t care whatever happens with Friedich or not, her dialogue and her friendship with Laurie and her love for her family and when she breaks down with her mother because everyone is leaving her behind to marry and make their own lives and if she wants to be someone priority society tells her she has to shed everything that makes her herself and debase herself for a man, but “I just want to be loved, and I don’t care at this point if I have to perform if only I wouldn’t be lonely” -style. It’s very much about feminism but it resonates so well with aro experiencies I’ll just project it on her, because it felt so good to have that struggle on a film. It felt so good. Tears are still falling from my eyes right now.

The way her aunt, although took under her wing Amy, and gave the opportunity to make connections and education to marry up to her (because she correctly saw that Amy would be the one who wanted and understood that world) but left the house to Jo, who didn’t want to marry, who had big dreams of making money to sustain herself without depending on men. She gave Jo a safety net to make sure she wouldn’t need to marry or to depend on her family, and whatever Jo chose in canon, it’s such a gift? Independency.