The latest LITTLE WOMEN movie

We watched the latest version of LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott on cable last night.  I think it is the same story that has been repeated over and over – but the details have different styles, and different actors have their own bag of tricks to add to it.

In the one we watched last night, the daughter (Louisa May Alcott) who is writing about her sisters has a few scenes bickering with her editor/publisher.  Lastly, she closes the book portraying herself as an old maid and her editor/publisher insisted she changed it to marrying and living happily ever after, which she did.  It is kind of like in the LI’L ABNER comic strips Al Capp would pop up in the strip to give Li’l Abner guidance.  I like that, it shows the book/movie is not that true non-fiction, truth has been bent to please you the reader/viewer’s demands.

I thought it was good.  Well done!

Also something else I liked:  There was a message at the beginning, as soon as we put in our account number that we had seven days to check it out, and once checked out we had 24 hours to watch it.  Then at the end, the cable company apologized for not making the connection and please try again later.  Does that mean they don’t know we watched it?  That means it was free, right?