9/19/2023 0 Comments Tuck everlasting movie winnie diesThe idea of a “fountain of youth/eternal life” isn’t new and has in fact been alluded to and even sought after in the past. People aren’t meant to live forever, and she finally figured that out. Her decision in not drinking from the spring, I think, was realistic and justified. She probably was a little hostile in the beginning, but she opened up, which I found was a good development in her character. I’m not sure where you’re getting that she was “mean to them all, especially to him,” especially considering (as joanbrazas said) how in the movie she helped rescue the family from prison AND kept their secret. I don’t think she was mean or selfish at all! Like some others already posted, Winnie chose LIFE. (Yes that’s right, I said opinions, as in these are my thoughts and I don’t plan on forcing these thoughts upon anyone else…at least I hope it doesn’t seem that way.): So with that said, here are my oh-so-fabulous (giving myself an esteem booster here) opinions based on watching the MOVIE. Let me first state that I have NOT yet read the book, Tuck Everlasting, though I do plan on reading it at one point or another. It's like Tuck said-really live your life. I understand the wheel of time thing and all, and I can understand it to some degree but overall it just falls flat for me at the end-the Tucks seem like good people who can still love and have feelings and fun and who really cares if that's forever or for 80 years. What bothers me about this movie is that seeing the world with someone she loved isn't considered "really living" but staying in the town she grew up in, getting married and having children is somehow the REAL LIFE. I mean.yeah okay Tuck was right they are just "existing" but then live your life with the eternity you've been given! Go exploring, see the world the way Jesse said. I dare not reveal what happens, except to say that it need not happen, that the explanation for it is logically porous, and that many a young girl has sacrificed more for her love." That's why the outcome of the romance is so unsatisfactory. Roger Ebert said it well: "Is it better to live fully for a finite time than to be stuck in eternity? The injunction to live life fully need not come with a time limit.
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