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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  • Saul 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    The parents are not close, the headmaster is a bully, and the daily life of a child in the rebellious period. Fortunately, there is a perfect teacher. Exaggerated, my family started to practice super powers after watching it, and asked me, why can't I use my mind to make it move?

  • Myrtle 2022-03-25 09:01:07

    In the comedy children's version of Carrie the Witch, an unfortunate family and occasional magic, the only difference between the two protagonists may be that Matilda's thirst for knowledge has acquired a more transparent and rational mind. Throwing children as shot balls, forcing a chubby chubby to eat a giant chocolate cake, being locked in a spiky confinement cell, a vicious stepmother, these scenes that are creepy and funny to adults, must be a nightmare reappearance in the eyes of children Yes, but the director used a very childlike imagination to add a touch of warmth and fun to the story. The little girl who was thrown out skated in the flower field and picked a bunch of flowers to give to the teacher. Really finished the cake, there is no cruelty in the adult world, and finally justice triumphs over evil, a happy ending that is familiar but cannot be said to be cliché. The saying that the book has its own golden house is really true. The clip of little matilda pulling the trailer to the library to move the book really touched me. If I watched this movie when I was young, maybe I would really fall in love with it. Read it. Family and environment are immutable, but you can still have a heart that loves freedom and beauty.

Matilda quotes

  • Agatha Trunchbull: I need a car, inexpensive but reliable. Can you service me?

    Harry Wormwood: In a manner of speaking, yes. Uh, welcome to Wormwood Motors. Harry Wormwood, owner, founder, whatever.

    Agatha Trunchbull: Agatha Trunchbull, principal, Crunchem Hall Elementary School.

    Harry Wormwood: Huh.

    Agatha Trunchbull: I warn you, sir, I want a tight car, because I run a tight ship.

    Harry Wormwood: Oh yeah, huh, well, uh...

    Agatha Trunchbull: My school is a model of discipline! Use the rod, beat the child, that's my motto.

    Harry Wormwood: Terrific motto!

    Agatha Trunchbull: You have brats yourself?

    Harry Wormwood: Yeah, I got a boy, Mikey, and one mis-*take*, Matilda.

    Agatha Trunchbull: They're all mistakes, children! Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one.

  • [after listing prices of cars bought and sold]

    Harry Wormwood: What was my profit for the day?

    Mikey: Could you repeat the last one?

    Matilda: [interrupting] $10,265.

    [long pause]

    Matilda: Check it if you don't believe me.

    Harry Wormwood: [he, Zinnia, and Mikey glance at the paper, then at Matilda] You're a little cheat, you saw the paper.

    Matilda: From all the way over here?

    Harry Wormwood: [suspicious] Are you being smart with me? If you're being smart with me, young lady, you're going to be punished.

    Matilda: Punished for being smart?

    Harry Wormwood: For being a smart aleck! When a person is bad, that person has to be taught a lesson!

    Matilda: Person?

    Harry Wormwood: Get up, get up...

    Narrator: Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given his daughter the first practical advice she could use. He had meant to say, "When a child is bad." Instead he said, "When a person is bad", and thereby introduced a revolutionary idea: that children could punish their parents. Only when they deserved it, of course.