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Today, we bring you a 2017 film work, Goodbye Christopher Robin, a story about the birth of Winnie the Pooh and Robin's growth. The film is also the latest work of British director Simon Curtis, if you are interested, you can go to see his "Blonde Woman", "Days in Switzerland", "My Week with Monroe" and other works. The British director is unique to biographical directors, which is quite interesting.
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The figure of light descended on the green grass between the gaps in the leaves.
The postman rode his bicycle through the woods; the lady who trimmed the branches; the man in the white shirt who sat in the house looking at the toys in the room, and had quietly grown his sideburns; a black and white photo was hidden between the plush toys, and the man who picked up the cricket ball fell into the memory in front of the window, and the two faces appeared in turn, young and green.
When the postman handed a letter to the man, the man shouted Daphne softly, and Daphne, who was still in a happy mood at first, saw the envelope held by trembling hands, and all the seemingly beautiful pictures before it were turned around.
Time, letters, sad women, angry and powerless men, the cricket that had experienced the happy memories of the past was thrown hard: Goodbye, Christopher Robin. Seeing these beginnings, it seems that this should be a family that received the news of the death of their son, and sadly recalled the story of the first half of their life or the second half of their lives, and the word "goodbye" seems to be a farewell to life and death. In fact, this goodbye is actually a goodbye to the person named "Christopher Robin" in the past.
Christopher Robin's father Milne (Blue)
Milne was an officer who served in World War I. After the war, he put down his gun, picked up his pen, and went back to his old pre-war job of playwright. Milne suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the war, often gibberish, hyper-alert and prone to fright. During this time, Milne and Daphne's child Billy was born, they hired Olive as the child's nanny, and the couple often left the child to enjoy the world of two.
At the premiere of a new play, Milne took the stage to give a speech but suddenly fell ill, and finally fled the stage in embarrassment. Leaving the theater, Milne walked alone down the street, and he found that the world seemed to be the same, that nothing had changed, and he realized in horror that there might be a war.
In order to recover from his illness and to escape the city, Milne took his family to the countryside. Milne and Billy, the strange father and son, had a chance to get closer. Milne's intention to write an anti-war book was opposed by almost everyone. So much so that Daphne left his country home until Milne, as a writer, was able to write a book.
Once, Billy asked his father, will you write a book for me?
Once, MIlne had a whim, planning to use his son as a prototype, plus Daphne often bought to write some stories for his son's toys, and invited Shepard to participate in the creation. As a result, once the story about Robin and Winnie was published, it swept across the world like a surging wave, and people were crazy and loved the little boy robin in the story. Suddenly, mr. and mrs. Milne fell into Vanity Fair, completely unaware of Billy's feelings as a little boy.
Fortunately, Billy's childhood had the nanny Olive taking care of her from life to psychology, Olive was always concerned about Billy's growth, and when the full schedule was written in the book, she would be distressed for Billy; she saw that the Times wanted to interview and shoot little Billy, and she was protective of the opportunity to make a name for herself, and Billy's parents were happy with the news.
Christopher Robin Jr
Compared to Billy's original parents, Olive is more worthy of the role of parent. If the world is likened to a long river, every family is in a small boat, Milne and Daphne are asleep, and in the dark of the night, there is olive lamp hanging on the bow of the boat, warming this small world.
Until Olive left, Milne sent little Billy to school, and Billy, a child who had lived in the greenhouse since childhood, was violently pushed down, fell down the stairs, and was instantly thrown into an adult. The innocent and evil lyrics rang out in Woody's mind: "Do you know what cruelty you have ever done to me is that you turned me into an adult overnight?"
This is somewhat appropriate for Billy. Billy's rebellion to get rid of that symbol of youthful fame and self-justification is also about the rebellion of teenagers. Billy, who failed the medical examination, asked his father, Milne, to use his connections to get him into the army.
So old Milne watched weakly at the station as the stubborn young man boarded the train heading for war, and even the phrase "don't go" was almost impossible to say. The car was far away, and old Milne was really old, and quietly left with the cricket.
At this point in the story, the picture comes to the scene at the beginning, but it only adds those touching details. Daphne begged Milne not to open the envelope, and as long as the letter was not opened, they would have to wait to continue. Milne looked at the line of the letter with his back to his wife, and when he turned back, only his helpless body and mind remained.
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Milne told Shepard of Billy's death, and told Olive that everyone in the world was like a walking corpse, licking their wounds. Until one night, Milne, who was sitting alone outside the house, vaguely saw a figure walking towards him...
When father and son sat on the big rock, overlooking the earth and the distance, Billy, who had been reborn by the baptism of war, was finally qualified to say goodbye to Christopher Robin.
The intention of the whole film is big and small, the big can be said to be an anti-war theme, to the smallest is just a family story between father and son, but it is framed into the heart, which gives people a profound feeling, and then feeds back to the big idea, complementing each other. Looking at the nearly 100 minutes, except for the no more than twenty seconds of battlefield footage at the beginning, the entire film never gives a cruel war scene every minute and second, and even Billy's going to join the army is just a farewell scene, but these twenty seconds of the picture brings Milne a lifetime of pain, such as gangrene of bones. Although there is no more war, Milne's post-war trauma has not only brought harm to himself, but also to the people around him, so that those of us living in the comfortable era can also feel the horror of war, gratitude for today's life, and think of danger in peace.
Just like the father-son dialogue at the end of the film, Billy said that the strength of Winnie the Pooh also gave comfort to the comrades around him on the battlefield, and Billy in the battlefield also truly felt the love given by his father, just as he said: (Childhood) was wonderful. It was growing up that phrase can also be given to everyone growing up.
Except for the opening and closing narratives, most of the film is interpolated with the stories of Billy and Milne. The warm light tone is always flattering, and the role of the little boy in the film is also very wonderful, almost giving people little trace of performance, which also makes me feel more deeply that the child's true color fully proves the importance of casting. The casting should be good, and the premise is that you must know who you want to be full of character settings. From the point of view of a film based on a true story, the film is still very successful. I can feel from the siege that young Billy can't understand the love of an indescribable father, which is probably experienced. Father's love is always wordlessly moist, most of the time it is still obscure, only age can wear off the thick cover of the book, to see through a father's love diary.
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As a supporting role, Olive actually has no less weight in my heart than Milne. Billy's childhood without Olive is absolutely unimaginable, even without Olive, there are other nannies, but for the initial beginning of a child, a small body that lacks fatherly love and maternal love, such an Olive is so precious and cherished.
This also makes us somewhat cherish the attitude towards people and things. In addition to cherishing the rare happy life today, I also hope that you and I will cherish the "Olive" around us.
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