The subtext of "I don't have a lot of choices - if I'm going to essentially give up my status as a separate legal entity, why the hell shouldn't I be well compensated for that?" being made text is apparently putting a lot of people off?

Wha?? That was one of my favourite bits in the entire movie! The movie is practically centered around the two big Fuck the Patriarchy speeches, one given by Amy here, and one later given by Jo -- I loved the contrast between Jo's passionate heartbreak and Amy's flinty anger and practicality, each a railing against the limitation put upon by the world that considered women second class citizens.

I apparently have a lot of opinions about a movie I haven't seen, but people being upset by that shocks me. Surely they haven't read the book as an adult. That is pretty much there in the text, it just sounds like the movie gives it voice.

And Amy, even with the pickled limes, understands the current social conditions and how to navigate them to her advantage, always. Which seems to escape the rest of the family.

Right? "It's not romantic!" Given the choices available? Well, no. "Meg didn't marry well, Jo won't, Beth can't - so I will." Gerwig showing what that line meant is possibly more reality than some were expecting from a movie marketed like this one, especially if they haven't read the unabridged book.

Sophia, I think a lot of people only know it from the films and have never read the book. I know, I'm shaking my head, too.

Louisa May Alcott is in my top three authors (with Charlotte Bronte and John Irving). This adaptation sounds really good and true. I know she wrote children's books, but they had some really good, and subversive, messages. I read them almost every year, so, I can't imagine.

Well LW was entirely charming. And beautifully shot: there were some shots that I just thought were lovely, like the scene on the beach with Jo and Amy, or the bit where Jo sits down on the hillside overlooking the church.

And the clothes! The costume designer deserves an award: it's all so real, and looks handmade, and shows the characters. Beautiful work.

My mother is so mad about that scene at the beach, just from having seen it in the ads. "People didn't just go to the beach! It was really far back then!"

but that was what Jo used the money she made in NY for. It wasn't a day trip, although the movie does kind of make it look that way.

I'm with Sophia in loving LMA and rereading her regularly. I can't wait to see the movie.