The Lost Boys
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Features
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1979
DVD Release : 06 June, 2006 |
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When Words Are Not Enough
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How does one entitle a review of a television drama series that is so absorbing and thought-provoking that one cannot possibly describe it without becoming mired in the platitudinous swamp of review-speak? As true as the words "hauntingly beautiful," "brilliantly scripted," and "splendidly acted" might be, they nevertheless fall flat in respect to "The Lost Boys." Similarly, the words "subtly nuanced performance" sound cheap in respect to Ian Holm's remarkable portrayal of Sir James Barrie. Nor can words do justice to Maureen O'Brien, Ann Bell, Tim Pigott-Smith, Anna Cropper, and the dozen or so boys of different ages who portray the five Llewellyn Davies brothers.
The story centers on a paradox of words and loss of words. Ironically, Barrie, who writes hundreds of thousands of words in his plays, his books, his letters to his adopted family of five boys, cannot express himself in actual words either to them or to his wife. Partly because of his failure to communicate, his desire to protect those he loves results too often in loss. The title, "The Lost Boys," is particularly poignant, since it connotes far more than the evident allusion to Peter Pan. It connotes not only loss of youth, loss of friends, parents and children, but also loss of innocence embodied in the loss of an entire generation of young men in the Great War that was supposed to end all wars. In the final estimation, the title connotes the most poignant loss of all: the loss of something imagined that never existed, nor ever could exist.
I must say that I am impressed with Koch Vision--the NTSC distributor (of which I had not previously heard)--although they might want to rethink the plastic double-carrier of the two DVDS, one hinge of which was broken. The Box names the actors in letters that one can actually read, and the DVD has an enlightening interview with the author of the script. Each episode is a riveting hour-and-a-half long. The costumes and settings are magnificent; and now I have sunk once again into the Swamp of Critical Platitudes! |
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