The Blue Orchid

photography, various material

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Gender question: why we consider something if it is made for girls or for boys? What you use doesn't define you.
You decide

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I report an interview with the director Greta Gerwig in which she talks about her "Little Women" there's the fulcrum and meaning of this work.

"𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬, 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵?"

« [Little Women] is one of the Classics of the American literature, it is rightfully in it, but like so many works by women it's not always read by men, even though we have read Moby Dick.. where there's no women in it.. there's a whale and a lot of men. So, we don't find hard to read Moby Dick and relate to a whaling ship of the 19th century, but for some reasons it's been much harder that men read about a sisterhood story and relate to it, and I think it is a mistake, there's a lot of love for men in the book. I think men has some kind of resistance to it that deprives them of a great little pleasure, because even if this is a feminist novel, it is not exclusionary it. It is about good men and good women, and it is a rising story for both of them. And I think the men of the story are an example of what is possible when negative parts of masculinity are left aside. And that what Louise May Alcott imagined, a more egalitarian relationship between men and women, and also something that allows everyone to flourish »

Greta Gerwig, interviewed about her movie "Little Women" by La Repubblica in 2019

https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2019/12/28/news/greta gerwig ho fatto piccole donne pensando alla ferrante -244526526/