Saving Mr. Banks, Saving the Father

Eugenia 2022-04-20 09:01:41

After watching this movie, I was thinking, how did the writer PL Travers (real name Helen) resolve the knot in his childhood?
Her father worked in a bank, and her family once lived happily in the city. Helen played in the big garden like a little princess.
Soon, however, my father was fired and the family moved to the suburbs, although my father was optimistic that we would live in the palace and have a horse. But my mother looked embarrassed.
His father worked in another bank, and his work was not satisfactory, so he began to drink alcohol to drown his sorrows, and tried to create a seemingly beautiful fairy-tale world in front of his children.
Little Helen is the eldest child, her father's plight, and her mother's helplessness, she sees it all. At the local bazaar, the carousel was so attractive, but she had no chance to fulfill her wish.
Father drinks more and more fiercely, and his attitude towards mother is getting worse and worse. A fall at the bazaar made his father bedridden, and with alcoholism, his health gradually deteriorated. Unbearable, my mother almost jumped into the river to commit suicide.
At a critical moment, my aunt appeared to help the struggling family. However, the father left Helen forever.
As an adult, writer PL Travers did not marry and wrote for a living. At the beginning of the film, she is mean, hates children, and dislikes pears.
As the script of the film was revised, the memory kept pouring in, and the story in the book was her own story.
When he lost his parents when he was young, his beloved father drifted away with the wind. This has been a knot in the heart of writer PL Travers for many years.
It's tiring to remember often, so let go of these memories. There is such a sentence in the play.
The adapted movie has a happy ending, which is Helen's wish and the result that audiences like to see.
For Helen, the film's alternative ending is the best farewell to childhood memories.

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Extended Reading
  • Alexys 2022-04-23 07:01:57

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "70"

  • Coleman 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Humorous light comedy rhythm, superb acting, beautiful music deployment and beautiful scenery, if from the perspective of "political correctness", the film won't be much worse than "12 years" by the Golden Man in the end, so It has become Oscar's legacy, probably because of the mediocre part of the memory. It is said that the real shooting process of "Mary Poppins" is much more difficult and difficult than the film shows. Poor Mickey Daddy...

Saving Mr. Banks quotes

  • [last lines]

    Travers Goff: [voiceover] Winds in the east / Mist coming in / Like something is brewing / About to begin / Can't put me finger / On what lies in store / But I feel what's to happen / All happened before.

  • P.L. Travers: [as she throws a Mickey Mouse doll off her bed] You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety.