The Little Prince (2016)

The Little Prince is a charming, but rather odd netflix original about a girl caught up in a society where everyone lives to "grow up" and once they grow up, they forget to live.
Her mother, a genuinely concerned parent, tries to carve out her life and her path to success. It seems that while you are a child you are already put through a bootcamp to reach the Academy, where you officially convert to a grown-up.
The little girl's life is consumed with regimen and discipline, but there are pockets of time, when she looks at her snow globes, or stare out at the sky, that you see she is aware that there is more out there.
In comes in her eccentric next door neighbor: an old, eccentric type that shoots her paper airplanes of stories about "A Little Prince".
That is where the movie becomes somewhat abstract and strange. As the little girl reads on about the Little Prince, she becomes closer to her neighbor, and soon they become good friends.
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The Little Prince as a character seems to be rather existential and profound for his size. There could be a lot of takeaways here: are children taken less seriously as they should? In The Little Prince it seems as all children are taught to forget about childhood.
Also, the Little Prince seems to take value in relationships, but also understands the meaning of love beyond the physical body, which is fantastic and deep, but also maybe a bit too deep for a children's movie. He falls in love with a Rose too -- with the Rose clamoring attention on to herself, the little Prince leaves, but never lets go of his love for her. There's talk of the Rose being his rose, and there's none other like it. That is a bit too metaphysical too.
I understand where the movie is going, and ultimately it's great. However, it's more suited for an adult audience.
The fantastic part of the movie is really coming to grips with the fact that the Little Prince may never have really existed. Maybe he did, and the little girl does seemingly encounter him. But did she?
She does go through an epiphany which leads her to understand the deepness of "seeing with your heart."


This is an interesting movie. It is deeper than most children movies out there, and is visually beautiful. Would I recommend it? If you enjoyed movies like In & Out and Finding Dory, you might find some value in this film.