u/Jarita12

I am talking about watching movies when you were 15, and loved a character, and then, years later, you realized like "Actually, this one had a point...?"

Similar to favouring Tom over Jerry in the cartoon as an adult?

I realized, at the age of 43 and as a woman with some life experience, that I was on on Miranda´s side in Mrs. Doubtfire after recent rewatch after about 15 years. Robin Williams is great in there, the movie lost nothing of that, there are great scenes and gags and it nicely changes into a family drama at the end without forcing happy end between them and ended up on a realistic note.

But honestly, I understood her point of view. And seeing Pierce Brosnan´s character as a "villain" back then, he is actually just a nice guy who is willing to marry a woman with three children who he cares about.

Do you have any movie like that?

Late to the party! But I just finished the book yesterday and it was incredible. I like WW1 or WW2 books but not all are good. Many are focused on soldiers, the actual fights and nothing against that. But to see the reality of how people lived, I love those, especially written so well.

It is known fact that women were left to take care of kids, houses, themselves and suffered a lot while men were fighting.

But this was such a great book covering the horrors of the war, while at the same time, portraying a family drama on a small scale. The way she described Vianne and Isabelle. Two sides of one coin. And I honestly did not know who I liked more or less, symphaties flipping. You get how Isabelle wants to fight but understand Vianne needs to protect her child. Vianne turned into a hero of her own, while suffering incredibly. Isabelle chose it willingly and suffered terrible consequences.

I was at the edge of my seat and read last 100 pages til middle of the night to find out if they made it because it was so tragic, sad and yet you *knew* the end of the war was coming. The fact many people died just before the end of the war is tragic and sad.

And I was totally surprised by the ending twist >!that we, in fact, follow Vianne´s tale the whole time, not Isabelle!<