I truly worshiped this movie when I was a kid, I even had a giant poster of the seagull on the wall of my bedroom. But after having watched it recently, it seems out of dated, the photography is poor, even though it was pretty good for 1973, the music is too much on the foreground, and really not that great, may we say also out of dated? Some parts are terribly long and make you want to die instead of watching such a poor picture but the philosophy of Richard Bach is still lovely and endearing (even though not especially profound and quite fathomable), it is why I recommend henceforth the book instead. If only somebody like Jean-Jacques Annaud was willing to make a remake: The Bear and the recent Two Brothers, both excellent, proved more than convincingly his talent to shoot movies with animals and to make it interesting even without philosophy so how great would it be with! Unfortunately, Bartlett is not Annaud we must say, and the attempt of adaptation has failed.
Review of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
