A national love letter to heal wounds

Horacio 2022-03-18 09:01:09

A truly classic piece with a warm heart behind it. "Goodbye, Christopher Robin" tells the whole process of how the classic British children's literature "Winnie the Pooh" was born and influenced countless people. This children's book for Christopher Robin, the son of the original author Alan Alexander Milne, is not as we imagined, it is an exclusive gift from a father to his son. You can even say the other way around. It was a gift from Christopher, who was 8 years old, to his father. Winnie the Pooh not only saved AA Milne from PTSD in World War I, but also helped him complete the repair of broken British optimism. mission. "Goodbye, Christopher Robin" is not a perfect movie. It has some shortcomings, such as the emotional changes of the characters are too blunt, the story is long and the tension is insufficient, and the flashback editing does not play a role in promoting the plot as expected, but That doesn't stop it from being at the top of the must-see list. The nearly two-hour film, full of emotions that can be seen everywhere, makes the audience have a new respect for the work of "Winnie the Pooh". While digging into the creative process of AA Milne, the director continues to describe the fame and fortune brought by its success. A blow to the father-son relationship. The birth of "Winnie the Pooh" has a noble purpose, but behind it is a lonely teenager. Christopher asked his father Alan to write a book for him, but in the end it was his father who wrote a book about him and entered the world's Vanity Fair. Winnie the Pooh's bestsellers have pulled the father-son relationship that was finally repaired farther away. Alan and his wife Daphne indulge in the feasting and feasting, seeming to have forgotten their original intention of publishing a book, and even more to Christopher, who should have enjoyed his childhood happily. Pushed to the center of the media whirlpool, at a loss. The birth of Christopher Robin saved a soul injured by war, and at the same time pulled this soul into the bottomless abyss of Vanity Fair, and the solution seemed to have only one solution at the time: stop any creation of Christopher Robin. The estrangement between Milne's father and son is the main axis of all the stories and characters of "Goodbye Christopher Robin", played by Domhnall Gleeson's A. A. Milne and Will Tilston play the teenage version of Christopher Robin, a PTSD-torn World War I survivor and a lonely teenager who can never seem to feel the warmth of his parents, seemingly out of place but handled quite naturally by the director. The embarrassment of being forced to be alone at first, the company when PTSD developed, those small games in the deep forest of Ashdown, those countless dinners, breakfasts and lunches with toys, 8-year-old Christopher step by step to his father's war. The heart that was shattered to pieces came back piece by piece. And all it takes is a simple (cold) joke from his father to make Christopher smile. One moment he was still sad and angry at the brief absence of nanny Olive, and the next second he was amused by his father's explanation of why he couldn't put the knife and fork upright. The film begins with the young Christopher looking out the window at his parents who constantly leave home for dinners and trips, and ends with the adult Christopher forgiving his father on the top of the Ashdown Forest. In the end, Christopher Robin, who has grown into a teenager and experienced the baptism of war, is finally relieved, willing to say goodbye to Robin in Winnie the Pooh peacefully, and agree to let the name that has belonged to British and even world readers continue to exert his due influence . After all, this Christopher is no longer another Christopher. Behind the laughter of "Winnie the Pooh", there will always be an 8-year-old boy's warm love for his father. Fortunately, no matter what the relationship between Christopher and his father is, the nanny Olive is always by his side to support and comfort him, playing a more important role than his mother. Although the interaction between the two is far from much, But bear 80% of the film's moving. Without Olive, it's hard to imagine how Christopher had the courage and conviction to save his troubled parents. "Goodbye, Christopher Robin" is a good work, but honestly it's still a long way from good. The biggest problem is that the director is too greedy, trying to squeeze too much emotion into one film length, Mr.

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Goodbye Christopher Robin quotes

  • Daphne Milne: You know what writing a book against war is like? It's like writing a book against Wednesdays. Wednesdays... are a fact of life, and if you don't like them, you could just stay in bed, but you can't stop them because Wednesdays are coming and if today isn't actually a Wednesday it soon will be.

  • Christopher Robin Aged 18: There it all is. Just as I left it. As if nothing had happened.

    Alan Milne: When I came back, everything seemed wrong. I didn't fit anywhere. Until I came here. Those days with you... I wanted to keep them all. Put them in a box.

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: The things that I said before I left...

    Alan Milne: They were all true. You're here. That's all that matters.

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: In the desert, we were under fire... and one of the men started singing one of the hums of Pooh. He changed the words a bit, but...

    Alan Milne: [low chuckle]

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: You know. And I thought, "How on earth do you know that song?" And then I remembered...

    Alan MilneChristopher Robin Aged 18: Everyone on earth knows that song.

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: But I knew it first. It was mine before it was anyone else's.

    Alan Milne: Then I gave it away.

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: When they were singing, they were remembering. It was like a magic charm... it took them home to a fireside and a storybook. You did that.

    Alan Milne: [inhales] Thank you. I'm sorry you paid the price for it. If I'd known, perhaps I...

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: What? Not written it? No. You reminded people what happiness was... what childhood could be when everything else was broken.

    Alan Milne: But your own childhood.

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: Was wonderful. It was growing up that was hard.

    Alan Milne: [smacks lips] Who would have guessed that bear would swallow us up?

    Christopher Robin Aged 18: Exactly. This was all ours, wasn't it? Before it was anyone else's.

    Alan Milne: Yes. And it always will be.