Theme Of Finding Neverland

“Authors writes novels not to think, but to keep themselves from thinking.”

The film "Finding Neverland" is the story of the man JM Barrie who does not want to grow up, and writes the story of a boy who never does. JM Barrie is a grown-up man, but he still lives in the unrealistic imagination of a fantasy-world, called Neverland. He uses Neverland to escape from the real world and his problems. Every time something goes badly in his life, he seeks comfort in Neverland. JM Barrie is married with his wife Mary, but he doesn’t care about her and ignores her. She often try to get his attention, but without success. Children are naive and innocence, but they (often) don’t show any consideration for other people’s feelings. JM Barrie is naïve, and

he doesn’t show consideration for his wife’s feelings. I don’t think he ever had been in love with a woman, and has never had sex - so in many ways Barrie act like a child. It makes him an outsider, because he doesn’t actually work with people his own age. In the movie he is writing story’s or playing with the Davis-boys the most of his time, and all in all he trying keeping himself out of the real life. When he meets the Llewelyn Davies-family, he falls in love with the whole family - but Barrie never became like a father to the boys, but rather a big brother. He starts to tell Sylvia about his own unhappy childhood. When Barrie’s older brother died, his parents started calling him by the brother's name. I think he felt he lived his brother's childhood and never had his own, and it has leaved profound traces on him, and I think the “never” in Neverland was finding his own happiness.
Barrie starts the film being an outsider, and ends up being an outsider. He escapes from the mess the world sometimes can be, and I think it’s because of that, he has such a beautiful mind and is such an amazing writer.