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In contrast is Greta Gerwig’s 2019 Little Women, the only adaptation I’ve seen to really understand the Laurie-Jo relationship. Timothee Chalamet is a delightful Laurie, more mischievous than the others, with just the right mix of shyness and charm. He and Saoirse Ronan’s Jo are joined at the hip, but Jo quite literally doesn’t see Laurie the way he sees her: time and time again, Chalamet’s Laurie throws a meaningful glance Jo’s way, and Ronan’s Jo is never looking. Laurie’s confession scene in this film also moves me in a way the other adaptations don’t. It’s much more similar to the book, emphasizing not what some yet unrealized version of Laurie will do for Jo, but what he has already done.

The clumsiness of this speech, peppered with panting interjections by Jo, makes it all the more affecting. It’s painful to watch, as painful as it was to read. Gerwig also does more than her counterparts to assure us that Jo’s rejection was the right move. She’s probably the first Little Women director to actually like Amy, devoting more time and development to the Laurie-Amy romance than previous adaptations. And although Gerwig’s Bhaer is played by the dreamboat Louis Garrel, there’s some autobiographical referencing in her directorial choices, most notably the inclusion of Jo bargaining with the publisher who eventually takes on Little Women, that hints at a completely different outcome for Jo.

Because indeed, we know this for a fact: Louisa May Alcott did not want her heroine to marry, and she certainly did not want her to marry Laurie.
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