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Film Review
Christopher Robin
Director:Marc Forster
Release year: 2018
Runtime: 1h44m
"IT WOULD SEEM I MUST GO FORWARD, WHERE I HAVE NEVER BEEN, RATHER THAN BACKWARDS, WHERE I HAVE." --pooh bear
"Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something." --Letterboxd description
i have nothing funny to say i was too busy bawling my eyes out the whole time to think of jokes
first of all im not crying
second of all fuck yes ewan mcgregor
this movie WRECKED me i was in DISTRESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
man ...... maybe we all really r facing heffalumps.... and woozles......
i vividly remember reading the tiny winnie the pooh books my mother grew up with when we moved from my first childhood home when i was reaally young, sitting in my empty room devoid of furniture and anything familiar. I connected with this stupid lazy bear at an incredibly formative and vulnerable time in my life, and still, he seems to pop up kind of everywhere in my life even now.
the new generally accepted artstyle for winnie the pooh is fine, but let me tell you, those original illustrations by E. H. Shepard are undefeated. the way they've animated pooh bear in this film is incredibly remeniscent of those illustrations and that got me so bad man. i mean everything about this movie seems to be designed to make me cry. we hadnt even gotten out of the exposure intro scene and i was already sobbing, can you imagine how GONE i was by the time we first got to any kind of emotional conflict?????????????
like there are just some scenes that KILLED me :( the whole montage designed to show how busy Christopher Robin was with work was incredibly effective at showing just how much he'd been shaped by his private boarding school environment, specifically the scene where you get given a tiny bit of hope that he'll get up and dance with his wife and daughter in the next room, only to realise as he reaches the doorway that instead of stepping through the threshold he closes the door in front of them because of how loud they were being? ouch man. i dont even need to point out the symbolism to you. its right there for all to see.
and dont even get me STARTED on the involvement of the war. how the fuck am i meant to cope with a war montage on top of all of what we already have to deal with ??? are you kidding me ??? you could not get a more drastic display of ripping the childhood and joy out of someones hands than sending them to an environment as brutal as a war, and to still make it out alive and have to continue on business as usual after.
this film is just such an incredible depiction of how while, yes, childhood dies and you only know to miss it when its gone, that doesn't mean you will never feel joy like that ever again. there is always the chance to make new memories, you won't be sad forever. one day you will be able to look at that toy again without crying, and one day you just might be able to give that toy to another, and thus the cycle continues on.
this is a movie about a boy whose edges were chipped and scuffed and shattered into the vague shape of a man by the loveless and uncaring environment the world dragged him through. this is a movie about the boy within him who survived despite it all, deep down.
i talked a little about when and where i really first ever interacted with this media, but i really gotta emphasise how much good i think watching this interpretation of it has done me, especially at a time like this.
we havent heard real news from ukraine in months. gaza has no longer been visible from space for about a year. the US is descending further into autocracy by the day. im steadily losing my human rights by virtue of not being considered "the norm" in the country i live in to study my passions. i finished highschool coming up on 2 years ago. im 19 years old now, and i will never be the child i was again. it could not be more clear that my childhood is now over. for many others on this blue planet it never even had the chance to start.
it felt like this film entered my life right when i needed it to and broke apart something deep inside of me, mending it to fit better than it has in years, like fixing a rusted part that was bent out of shape; it dusted off the shelves in my heart and brough out my old things from the forgotten boxes in the basement, each toy and item and book placed neatly next to my course work, my favourite games, pictures of my new friends now accompanying old ones whose names i dont need to remember to know i was loved by.
this movie may not be in my top few, but believe me, i will always speak incredibly highly of it. i pretty much have nothing but praise; i think ill always look upon red balloons with a bit more fondness from now on.
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