FILM REVIEW: Anne with an E (TV Series 2017

Anne’s story is based on the 1908 novels Anne of Green Gables by Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. Her adaptation was made by Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Moira Walley-Beckett. The Canadian series that is transmitted by CBC worldwide was released through the Netflix platform, being a trend this week.

It begins as another children’s drama, the first hook to keep the viewer expectant, and although at the beginning we find an annoyingly talkative girl who uses refined words and expresses herself in a peculiar (and sometimes burdensome) way, she will soon get us immersed in her world of creativity, stories and adventures.

This is not a series of chapters with a happy ending. All of Anne’s childhood problems are shown with the darkness and magic that her adolescence has, even scary at certain times.

For three seasons Anne will be the common thread to reveal to us through her view the incongruities by which the world is governed. And she will not be sitting around, but will try to change it. Everything about it.

Each chapter is a small or large reflection on life and how we are told to live it.

So, although the series is vintage, it deals with current affairs, like feminism, a sentiment that Anne will lead and that will remind us so much of a modern Pippi Longstocking.

Same hairstyle (braids), same creativity, independence and ideas ahead of the time. Feminist speech is sometimes so clear that it is not even credible that it comes out of the head of such a young girl.

The series offers us a contrast between new and old ideas, and Anne has come to break the rules. If you are looking for a different way of seeing things, while remembering your childhood, this is your series.