What I did like about this film was the idea of playing pretend. A big part of childhood is that stage where you act out your imagination rather than just imagining it. I think this movie took pretend to another level. It was a level of another world. The world these kids were living in when they decided to run away, and to set up their own home in the wilderness, and to get married, was all pretend, but the kids considered it real. And it was real in that they really did all those things, but it was pretend in that it was a world that could be destroyed in an instant.
I think this film could really happen in real life. Kids have a perception on things, especially independent kids like Suzy and Sam, that says they can do things that adults would say they couldn't. I'm not talking about rebelliousness, I'm just talking about belief. These kids didn't think much about what could happen if they ran away. They just knew they wanted to and they figured out a way to do it so they did it. An adult would be weighing all the consequences and the ifs, but kids, until a certain age, don't have the experience to be able to even imagine all the possible consequences of running away. And even if they know they can get in trouble, sometimes they just push that to the side and don't dwell on it, like Suzy did with the stolen library books. They figure they'll face the consequences another day. I like how this film portrays that freedom that kids have, to do crazy things without being bothered by consequences until the consequences actually hit them. There are a lot of films that portray imagination and adventure that carries no realistic consequences for the kids, because the adults either never find out what happened or the adults end up being part of the adventure and therefore they take the kids' side. In real life, there's grown ups and kids living in the same world but comprehending it with different brains. That's what this film portrays.
Suzy's magic power
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