The movie "Goodbye Christopher Robin" tells the story behind the creation of Winnie the Pooh. Compared with the eternal joy and ease in the world of Winnie the Pooh, the real world is entangled with struggles and difficult to reconcile.
Mean returned from World War I with post-traumatic stress. The sound of popping champagne, the spotlights of the theater, unexpected physical contact, and the hum of insects all bring him into the memory of painful battlefields, making him instantly nervous and even collapsed. His wife could not soothe his pain, and the newly born child did not surprise him too much. Even having his own plays on stage doesn't give him a real sense of accomplishment. Experiencing the war destroyed his "meaning", and his anti-war thinking seemed out of tune with reality - people wanted to forget, but he didn't. With such pain, he moved out of London and took his family to live in the quiet Hundred Acre Wood.
The film's first "reconciliation" -- Mean's reconciliation of the wounds of the war -- takes place here. But rural life is only one of the settings, the real change comes from the unexpected parent-child time between father and son.
Before that he was an absent father. He probably never thought about getting close to his son. In one scene, Mean carries baby Robbie up the stairs like a plate, and the overhead shot shows this weird posture and estranged relationship. The person closest to Robin is the babysitter, followed by the mother, and the father is the unfamiliar and dignified character in the family. "Mom said I can't talk to you while you're working, it will disturb your thinking."
But this time, the wife returned to London alone because her husband couldn't return to normal writing, and the nanny had to leave for a few days because her mother was seriously ill, leaving Mean to take care and accompany her son.
The following is a beautiful narrative, the father and son from strangeness to trust, playing together in the big forest. Mean joins his son Robbie's fairy tale world for the first time - there's a bear named Winnie, a donkey named Il, and a little pig and a Tigger. He also became a dream maker in this world, accompanying his son to enrich the story of "Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin". The relationship between father and son quickly sublimated. The innocence and cuteness of the son and the warmth of the imaginary fairy tale world redeemed Mean. His expression of anti-war thoughts turned from anger to tenderness. Once, he was blowing up balloons in the forest with his old friend (who also illustrated "Winnie the Pooh") and his son. A red balloon burst suddenly, and Mean became nervous again. But this time, he overcame his fear of popping noises and took the initiative to step on the remaining balloons happily with his old friend and son. This scene represents Mean finally coming out of the trauma of war. It is worth noting that it is the fairy tale world of sons and sons that heals Mean, and it is friends who also experience war who understand Mean, and the wife is not present in the process.
As the nanny Oliver said, people who have experienced war have forgotten happiness and warmth, and the story of Winnie the Pooh and little boy Christopher is like a faucet, open it and happiness and warmth flow out. "Winnie the Pooh" became a bestseller, and Christopher Robin became a famous little boy all over the world. Adults gain fame and fortune, but children lose freedom and happiness. Robbie couldn't understand why his Pooh became everyone's Pooh, and why he played Christopher Robin in the book (though that's his name, but the boy in the book isn't really him). He didn't understand why after a brief golden intimacy, his father became distant and busy again, and his mother happily rushed to the outside world, while he had to accept various interviews, take pictures, and even have afternoon tea with members of parliament. He didn't understand why Oliver, who was the closest and loved him the most, could also love another man at the same time.
But what really made Oliver leave was not his own romance, but his disapproval of the family's way of life after gaining fame and fortune and Robbie's way of growing up. Oliver's departure, let Robbie enter the formative period from childhood. In the young Robin's statement, childhood is beautiful, but growing up is painful. Although Mean reflects on the negative impact of fame on his son and vowed not to write a new Winnie the Pooh story, Pooh is already the most famous Pooh in the world, and Robbie is hard to tear off the Christopher Robin label. In the boarding school, Robbie, who lost his asylum, kept getting strange eyes and bullying because of his identity as "Christopher Robin", which made him hate "Winnie the Pooh" and his own identity. He even stubbornly asked his father to use his connections to send himself, who failed the medical examination, to the battlefield of World War II. He went to war with yearning and relief - on the battlefield, he could truly be himself as a warrior, and no one cared that he was a little boy with Winnie the Pooh.
The movie opens with a mailman on a bicycle delivering a letter from the front. Later in the film, after we learn the life stories of Mean and Robbie, the letter is opened - "We regret to inform you that Private Christopher Robin is missing and may be killed in action".
"What kind of father would send his son to the battlefield?" Mien's heart was undoubtedly painful. But I don't think he regrets it because he understands the pain that his son who lives under the name "Christopher Robin" has endured.
Fortunately, on a moonlit night, Private Robin came back with his luggage. He is not dead.
'Winnie the Pooh' reconciles father to war. And the war, let his son reconcile with "Winnie the Pooh".
In the trenches, he heard the soldiers singing Winnie the Pooh. He once regarded Pooh as the source of growth pressure and father-son conflict, and at that moment, he understood that Pooh is also the source of love and memories for many children. At that moment, he finally saw the value of Pooh to more people and let go of his pain.
After returning from the war, Robbie and his father walked through the Pooh Forest again, and the father and son finally reconciled.
The film does not give much space to Robbie's story when he was growing up, but the conflict is clear and the character story is relatively complete. The ink is more about the part of Father Mean, Dominal Gleeson is so good-looking. As a child, Robbie was a cute little boy like an angel. The little actor's sunny blonde hair and dimpled smile make people's hearts go away. Nanny Oliver is also a warm, flesh-and-blood character. And my mother is not very likable, she is very obsessed with her secular values, and does not have the same heart as anyone else. And in the real world, Christopher Robin and his mother didn't have a good relationship. After the death of the father, the mother and son have not seen each other.
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