Finding Neverland Analysis

The movie Finding Neverland is a part-biographical movie about Sir James Mathew Barrie. In this movie the character of Sir J.M. Barrie, a Scottish playwright is portrayed by Johnny Depp. The movie centers on the experience of Sir Barrie as a famous playwright with struggling to produce good plays. It renders the relation he maintains with the Davis family as he gets inspired by them and writes Peter Pan .The movie also portrays the effects of his presence to the Davis family. Throughout the movie the character of Sir Barrie undergoes a great deal of changes through which he develops emotionally as a person.

The character of Sir Barrie is somewhat self aware from the beginning. The character is very much in touch with his strengths. He is

The character however does show a kind of self regulation in the movie. The character does not get very closely involved with the family. He somewhat restricts his feeling to get involved with the family to become a fatherly figure to the orphaned children of the family. However, he fails to restrict the emotional overflow that he experiences while being with the family so he fails to improve the failing relationship with his wife and the gossip that the people spread with his overly affection with the Davis family. His lack of emotional overflow does not portray as being cold and calculated, but it rather means that he does not lets his emotion to reach to the extreme point, and that redirects these emotions towards productivity. It is evident during the final moments of the film that he directed the childish emotions that he got from spending time with the Davis family and incorporated these emotions to provide authenticity to a rather fictitious tale. While he skillfully directs these positive emotions; he does not seem to be very good with his negative emotions. He gets very nervous when plans do not go as good as he hopes it to go. His nervousness is very obvious during the first play citing that the audience hates the play every time he looks at the audience to judge their reaction. He seeks self assurance with the ticket sales man that the audience hates his play, and in my

He is motivated in the sense that he has the courage to continue with the imaginative personality, that he had as a child, and take it to his professional and adult life, which becomes apparent later on during the length of the film. He is involved very deeply in his work and translates every action to his work one way or another .He is always seen with a diary and a pen wherever he goes so that he may put everything he sees into writing, as he believes everything is important. But the real motivation in his life comes from the Davis family. As he plays and spends time with the Davis’ kids their innocence and playful nature speaks to the kid inside of him and strengthens his imaginative capabilities. The experiences backs up his motivation by intensifying the reason behind his profession as a playwright. In a sense the Davis family gives him the drive to pursue his work and believe in it. However, he lacks this optimism at first, made clear by the fact that he is seen nervous many times during the course of the first play and he does not believe that anything will turn out positive. Furthermore, His motivation at that point seems low because his work (at first) does not seem to reflect the feelings and things he wants to portray in the play. While it can be implied that he has somewhat of an innate motivation it can be stated as a fact that this motivation is reinforced as the movie