Finding Neverland
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I make it a rule to enjoy whatever Johnny Depp does. He is an American original, chameleon-like, the kind of actor that always surprises and delights. Early in this film his character, J. M. Barrie, the eventual creator of Peter Pan, goes off to the park and has a magical encounter with a young boy lying under his park bench. Inspired by the boy and other members of the boy's family, Barrie gives them a performance-directly from his fertile imagination. Not only has he found an audience-he has found a subject (his own repressed childhood) to mine for all of its treasures. Now most of the themes that pour out are fairly obvious: Barrie will become a surrogate father to these boys (whose father died), Barrie and his wife should have had children (but they didn't), Barrie's marriage is cold and dull (perhaps he will begin an affair with the boys' mother), Barrie will become a perfect father to these boys, Barrie's love for the boys will inspire the oldest son to act the role of the "father" when the time comes, and Barrie's imagination eventually will inspire little Peter to become the writer he wants to become. Now a major plot arrives when Barrie tells the boys' mother about the death of his own brother, James, when Barrie was only he eight years old. He tells her about Neverland, the imaginary place he escaped to in order to find solace from his grief. He has told no one about Neverland, not even his own wife. "Someday I'll take you there," he tells her. All has been sweetness and light, but now the boys' mother begins to cough-a universal sign in cinema that she is dying of tuberculosis.[1]
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