Little Women (1994),
based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, can be thought of as a social history
of civil-war-era New England—that is to say, the film captures what life must
have been like on a daily basis. Yet the human predicament resonates and thus
makes the film moving for viewers far removed from the world of the Marsh
family in Concord, Massachusetts. In particular, the film confronts the viewer
with the hard task of going on even with the emotionally heavy experience of
loss.
The full essay is at “Little
Women”