![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A young boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux is chased by bullies into a book shop where he steals a book called The Neverending story. Plot wise the elements that made the film unique are all very much present, albeit the film takes up quite literally the first half of the novel. I did not read Michael Ende's original novel until a good while later, indeed about 12 years later, and rather fittingly for a film which was so profoundly imprinted on my consciousness, it is also the first book I have read specifically with the idea of writing a review in mind. ![]() After all, for a child and indeed for an adult who hasn't completely lost all sense of wonder, each book really is another world which can be explored and understood, a world which is at the same time more beautiful and more terrible than the world we live in. The idea of a world inside books was, for an avid reader like myself, perfectly logical, but this was not a nice friendly world of pixies and elves but a world of deadly dangers and fearful monsters. I remember it distinctly as one of the films that really scared me, but at the same time equally fascinated. Though I was too young to watch it upon its first 1984 release, my junior school showed it in 1987 or so when I was five (I had a very nice junior school). The Neverending story is one of those films that truly made a major difference to my childhood. ![]()
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