Came across this movie by accident.
The Secret Garden was probably one of my favorite stories as a kid (must have one here, I can't say Heidi or the Jungle Story or the Three Musketeers, etc. which is the best, I love them all). Read it over and over many times. Every little girl has ever dreamed of having a garden of her own, with swings, roses, a thick vine wall, a four-season bloom, colorful butterflies and birds.
Mary's secret garden can be said to be very enviable.
Young children are willing to understand all abstract things as magic, and are happy to interpret it and catalyze it. This kind of thing can never be understood by adults. I especially admire the author of this book, she used an adult body to depict the real inner world of a child, those inferiority complexes and pride, those who care and pretend not to care, simple pleasures, small-scale boldness, hands-on ability, and construction The power of a whole spiritual world.
In the movie, many settings in the novel were sacrificed, such as a long-term epidemic, which was changed into a fire, and the key buried in the garden became the key placed on the dresser of the heroine. And my favorite little bit of dialogue, Mary, on the way back to Yorkshire, asks, what was that? That's a wasteland.
Also, my favorite, Martha's mother, did not appear at all because of the plot, and the part of writing the letter was directly handed over to the child. The magic sit-in in the garden has been replaced by a dancer and more. But these changes have not affected the main tone at all, and the key scenes are also there, which is what I imagined.
Many famous novels have one kind or another of shortcomings when they are adapted into movies. Perhaps because the story is small, the main line is clear, and the content is simple, it makes me feel that this movie is very complete.
In short, this is a very good novel adapted from a very good movie, whether it is a novel or a movie, you can watch it.
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