The film Little Women (2019) follows four sisters circa 1860s Massachusetts taking place during the civil war (Jo, Amy, Beth and meg). Jo March is the main character and my favorite one in the movie. She is a struggling writer trying to support her family, while their father is at war in the beginning of the movie in one of the best storytelling decisions I have seen in a movie we flash back to seven years earlier and see the interworking of the family dynamics at a better time for the family. Which is where most of the film takes place. 

One of my favorite things about this movie is the almost love story between Jo and Laurie (the rich neighbor boy) played by Timothee Chalamet. Jo never wanted to marry unlike her sisters; she just wanted to live her life and write books, but she really did like Laurie she just knew it wouldn’t work out. It’s just best for them to be friends but eventually she wanted to marry and with Laurie so then seven years later she tries to say her true feelings for him but he tragically already married her sister Amy! That was heartbreaking to me to see how it feels to be the other woman and just sitting on the sidelines and being in someone’s shadow. But she didn’t let that get her down so she went on to get her book published and it took off which is so good to see in film that you can bounce back, get back up on your feet and dust yourself off and have a fresh start. 

Jo ends up getting a new man and that’s very inspiring to me because it’s just showing you don’t need a man to achieve success and or be happy but it can be nice. One thing I would change about Little Women is Amy finding someone else because in the movie she ends up with Laurie. I just think she could have gotten a lot better than her sisters like ex.

Amy is the youngest sister of the four which, I can relate to. she was always excluded from what the older sisters where doing so she never get to go out much until she get to go to Europe to study art and she had had a crush on Laurie ever since she saw him. When he was in Italy he proposed of course she said yes, but I just think she can do a lot more for herself. I think Laurie is a bit mean. That’s the only thing I would really change in the movie.

 Another thing I admire about Little Women is the breathtaking simatography. Greta Gerwig’s direction in this film is insane. The iconic hill scene between Laurie and Jo was so stunning and altered my brain  the first time I saw it. 

Little Women is one of the best movies of the 2010s and one of my favorites of all time, I will cherish it forever.