Its play is completely different from "The Shawshank Redemption". In fact, if purely from the screenwriter's point of view, this movie is more sophisticated than the latter. At the same time, the interweaving of the main film (now) and flashbacks (past) is perfect throughout the film, making it a perfect tutorial for dealing with flashbacks.
The film tells the story of "Aunt Mary Poppins" author PL Travers teamed up with Walt Disney to adapt "Aunt Mary Poppins" ” into the story of the movie “Mary Poppins.” And in this story, it keeps flashing back to Travers' childhood, telling the story of her and her father.
In the first story, Travers was forced to sell his work because he had no money to make a living. In the face of her own shameless behavior (at least she thought it was), she couldn't forgive herself. So, for 20 years, the film rights for the book have never been awarded to Disney. When she was finally forced to sell her work, she insisted on participating in the screenwriting to ensure the integrity of the original work. In the end, after going through several twists and turns, the integrity of the characters in the work was preserved and his own redemption was realized.
In the second story, young Travers is trying to please his father, whether he is writing poetry to win awards or insisting on being himself. So that when the alcoholic father was terminally ill due to alcoholism, he secretly brought alcohol to his father, which indirectly caused his father to die. This incident has become her lifelong regret, and even now she can't forgive herself.
Through the interspersed two stories, the film finally allowed Travers to realize that his father became a good person through the screenwriter, but he had decades of regrets and remorse, and obtained a happy reunion of self-redemption as the ending.
The tricks and the many coincidences behind the film aside, the film is most touching about Travers' relationship with her father.
Travers' father is a man who advocates freedom. His huge brain hole, tolerance, encouragement, love for his children, and adaptation to harsh environments are all very admirable. But no one is perfect. He has a fatal flaw: he is addicted to alcohol.
The most touching scene happened at home. The seriously ill father lay in bed, watching Travers helplessly leaning against the window.
Travers found his father was seriously ill, began to fear his father would be ready to leave, then said to his father:
. "The Do not the Leave Me" ( "Do not leave me.")
Father looked at her a little melancholy, replied:
" Never." ("Never.")
"Never" - this promise is just a word in soft words, but it carries the love that a father will never give up on his daughter. As the saying goes, a father's love is like a mountain, but that's not all. It immediately touched the softest part of my heart. Even writing this, I still can't escape the emotion it brought me at that time, and my eyes start to turn red again.
However, all of this may only be truly understood after becoming a parent.
What people are most afraid of is commitment, because a small commitment will make people spend their whole lives to practice, follow, and honor. Not only that, but the pressure of that promise will become more and more difficult to fulfill over time, more and more heavy, so heavy that the flesh and blood cannot bear it, and that even the strongest mind can no longer hold on.
In fact, apart from the one who made the promise, the one who got the promise was not happy either. Travers is like that.
For her father's "never", in order to keep his promise, Travers finds wine from the rubbish heap for his father to drink... Until in the end, the poem she wrote won a prize. She wanted to buy something delicious for her father, who said he wanted pears, but when Travers came home happily with the pears, his father was dead.
The pear tumbled from Traverse's hand, and her heart was broken. Since then, the pear has become a symbol that stores her sad memories and no longer appears in her real world.
That's what she couldn't forgive herself for for decades. Although in her book, Aunt Mary Poppins is portrayed as a magical nanny who is helping her family and even allowing her father to return to the family, and the family has lived a happy life since then, but she can't make it in this series of books. Redeem yourself.
It was not until she finished writing the film that she knew that redemption was never given by outsiders. Even if you are forgiven by others, you cannot be redeemed yourself. In other words, no one but himself can truly redeem himself.
To put it more bluntly, no one but myself can really unload the burden of commitment and truly forgive myself.
Addendum at the end of the article: Inside and outside the movie
1. The adapted movie "Mary Poppins" is very famous: through Baidu, I know how famous this movie is. I can't help it, and interested friends can directly Baidu.
2. Emma Thompson, the heroine of this play, actually wrote two films based on Aunt Mary Poppins, "Nanny McPhee" one and two, and played the leading role, for which she also won the Oscar for Best Screenplay . So, in this film, she actually starred in her true colors...
3. It took Disney 16 years to obtain the film rights to the "Aunt Mary Poppins" series, not 20, and there were a lot of Travers's during the shooting. Opinions are not taken as they are in this film.
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