The story revolves around a pre-teen Jesse Aarons. He is having a hard time, at home and at school. He is bullied by his sisters at home and by other students at school. On top of that, there is his ignoring father. All he likes and excels in is running. But this too turns upside down when the new girl in the class beats him in an important race at school.
The girl, Leslie burke (AnnaSophia rob), lives the next door. She too, is different than all, and is lonely and never had luck in making friends.
Then, as what you would expect, they become friendship. But this one is different then all other cheesy stories. There is no romantic angle, and what indeed is friendship in its most beautiful and pure form. It begins from giving a juicy fruit and carries itself to the imaginative world of Terabithia. A world, created by two friends, to run away from the outside world. A world where they are the king and queen and nothing crushes them. This movie slowly becomes more and more beautiful and the later part is up to you to watch.
Movie gripped me from the beginning. It was engaging, never boring and so fresh. Characters were very lovable, especially both of the main characters.
Yes, this is probably the best family movie you would ever see, but there is a word of caution. It can be the most depressing movie too. There is something after movie is over more than half, which can make you cry, seriously.
Now I wont write spoiler, but this was something I didn't expect. Believe me, I never felt so much depressed in my life just because a movie. I wanted to weep, seriously.
When the movie was over, I was depressed. Actually that happens sometimes and it is not something very strange. But when I was going to sleep, it was in my mind. I slept and started thinking about it. I tried to throw it out of my mind, but I couldn't. I was so depressed. Scenes of movie kept coming in my thoughts. Especially two or three were so touching, that I wanted to cry just by thinking of them.
I woke up once in between my nap, and all I thought was about Bridge to Terabithia. It is strange, for the first time a movie is keeping me depressed for so much time. Schindler's list was excellent, but I was not depressed for so much time. When I am writing this, it is almost a whole day since I saw the movie, but I just cant stop thinking. I dont know how to escape it, but it just haunts.
Ending of the movie was a happy one, but was it really? I want to write so much about the movie, about those two characters, about their friendship or love or maybe about anything about the movie. But I just cant write. It is making me depressed. Maybe thats cause I too had a similar friend in the past and I cant be with her for some reason, but that dosent matter.
All I would like to say in the end, is that watch this movie right now if you haven't. And I bet you will be happy, but more depressed.
