Childlike looking at the world

Melany 2021-11-15 08:01:26

The director of the movie "Matilda" looked back at the world from the perspective of children with a childlike innocence.

The angle of view focused on the little girl Matilda.

"We have a son and a trouble." Matilda is the trouble that parents call.

My father used deception to do a used car business. My mother thought it was enough for a woman to dress herself beautifully. Parents and brothers both enjoyed watching TV as their greatest pleasure. Even Matilda's teacher came to the house and no one listened. But Matilda is different from them. She likes to read and read all the books in the family. When Matilda opened her mouth to ask for a book for the first time, she was rejected by her father on the grounds that Matilda did not get involved. Come in this family. Dad even pressed Matilda's head and forced her to watch TV with her family. It was also at this moment that Matilda knew of her super energy.

When Matilda came to the school, the principal used severe punishment of students as a means of education, and no weak student escaped the principal's punishment.

Children must have grown up with all kinds of native families. In this family, Matilda is not recognized by the family members, and even her father does not remember how old she is. Parents are the children's first teachers, and the school is the place where children grow up. If neither of them can take the responsibility of children's growth, children can only grow up rather than grow up.

The director is well aware of the powerlessness of children facing the world of adults. So the director gave Matilda super energy. Punishing the deceitful dad and the fierce principal, silently fighting against the evil adult from the perspective of a child, makes people laugh and think deeply.

Matilda in the film neither has a good native family nor was sent to a school with a mellow school spirit, but the reason why Matilda can grow up healthily depends on her superhuman endowment and teachers who love her.

Unfortunately, children in real life are ordinary people without super energy. In the eyes of ordinary children, the world is like the first nurturer. What can make up for the lack of family is school education. If school education is still insufficient, then the hope of children's growth is very slim.

A good family is the birthplace of a good society. Children are the future creators of a better society. Let the world see it, and pay attention to children and education together.

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Extended Reading
  • Brenna 2022-04-20 09:01:37

    To a large extent your family of origin determines your way of thinking, how many are spared from it?

  • Francesca 2021-11-15 08:01:26

    Pretty cute story. I remember watching this movie a long time ago. Rewatched on HBO the other day. A fairy tale. In terms of human design, the borrowed image makes the characters vivid. For example, the principal is similar to the Nazis. Matilda is tied with a red ribbon like Hayao Miyazaki's little witch.

Matilda quotes

  • Harry Wormwood: Are you in this family?

    Matilda: Mmmm...

    Harry Wormwood: Hello?

    [short pause]

    Harry Wormwood: Are you in this family?

    [switches the lamp off]

    Harry Wormwood: Dinner time is family time. What is this trash you're reading?

    Matilda: It's not trash, Daddy, it's lovely. It's called "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville.

    Harry Wormwood: Moby *what*?

    [snatching the book from Matilda and tears the pages out of the cover]

    Harry Wormwood: This is Filth! Trash...!

    Matilda: It's not mine! It's a library book!

    Harry Wormwood: I'm fed up with all this reading! You're a Wormwood, you start acting like one! Now sit up and look at the TV.

  • Matilda: Dad?

    Harry Wormwood: What do you want?

    Matilda: Yell at me, okay?

    Harry Wormwood: SHUT UP AND LEAVE US ALONE!

    Matilda: Yell at me again!

    Harry Wormwood: [in a rage] Yell at ya?

    [storming towards her]

    Harry Wormwood: I'll come in there and pound your miserable hide! What do I have to do to gain respect around here? I'm gonna give you a tanning like you never had in your life! My word is my law!

    [Matilda uses her powers to slam her bedroom door in Harry's face just as he reaches it]