What this absorbing documentary proves is that writer J.M. Barrie, creator of the immortal children's fantasy character Peter Pan, was just as exuberant and rebellious as his creation. Peter Pan has come to be celebrated for his sense of youthful joy andhis delight in escaping the constraints of social mores and realities. But what he really represents is an extension of Barrie himself, a man known for his barrier-breaking imagination and whose friendship with the Llewelyn Davis family inspired the LostBoys of his fable.
What this absorbing documentary proves is that writer J.M. Barrie, creator of the immortal children's fantasy character Peter Pan, was just as exuberant and rebellious as his creation. Peter Pan has come to be celebrated for his sense of youthful joy andhis delight in escaping the constraints of social mores and realities. But what he really represents is an extension of Barrie himself, a man known for his barrier-breaking imagination and whose friendship with the Llewelyn Davis family inspired the LostBoys of his fable.
