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"We all have our stories. Don't you want to end yours? Don't you want to let go of everything and live a life dictated by the past? Mary Poppins didn't come to save the children. She came to save the father. From her books, I understood the importance of forgiveness. - I don't have to forgive my father, he was a wonderful man. - Helen Goff, life is a harsh sentence she has to serve for herself. Give me Mary Poppins, and I promise you that anyone who steps into a cinema will see that George Banks and everything he represents will be saved and redeemed. Perhaps not in life, but in imagination, because that's what we storytellers do."
Returning to admire the world through a child's eyes?
Simple... watch this film and for those 126 minutes, that's all you will do.
And now you might be asking why you should appreciate a "simple comedy" by John Lee Hancock, with actors of the caliber of Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, and Tom Hanks. Well, hearing the words "Mary Poppins" and "Walt Disney" was enough to convince me to watch it.
The biographical story of the ongoing tug-of-war between Mr. Disney and the author of Mary Poppins, lasting 20 years, is alternated with flashbacks of the protagonist, Pamela Lyndon Travers, and several weeks of 1961.
From the film, we will realize how a young girl who was madly in love with getting lost in the depths of her imagination can become simply cynical, quick to criticize, and seemingly detest any puppet in plain sight, pears, and everything that can be linked to her Mr. Banks.
The analysis that follows will bring to light a very sad story, yet at the same time sprinkled with simply moving scenes that make you understand how that "getting lost" was her happy island, from which she decided to distance herself in reality, leaving a crumb of it to pour into her books.
However, even Walter, portrayed by Tom Hanks, will demonstrate his attachment to what he believes Banks represents, telling us the story of a violent father, devoted to work at the expense of even his kids, touching the heart of even the reserved Pam!
The film itself, thanks to the help of soundtracks and sketches, takes us back and plunges us into that magical atmosphere that only Mary Poppins can inspire.
Who doesn't remember her talking umbrella, or the way she aligns her feet, her bag that even contains a coat rack, her SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS?
I was moved watching Pamela/Helen during the premiere as she sees her Mr. Banks taking shape, and I laughed seeing her deny her emotion, claiming it wasn't for the film but because she felt sorry for the animated penguins!
Light if you want to see it just as a digression on what precedes a great classic, but exciting, carefree, and in the moments when you touch the ground with your toes again, sad and melancholy.
The "horrendiful" story of a girl who prematurely loses her father, who thus loses the one who taught her to fly and for this reason stops soaring in the air, would indeed be a sad story, but predictable and trivial... but if it is all adorned with songs that remind us of our childhood (at least in my case), a sense of rehabilitating the figure of Travers Robert Goff by the daughter who sends her Mary to his rescue, with touching moments, actors who perfectly slip into the roles of the protagonists like Emma Thompson, and a Tom Hanks who, even if nothing like Walter, brings a real, likeable, and human character to life, I believe this all together creates the winning ticket for an engaging film!
The testimonies at the end of the film are also touching, the tape with the writer's voice, the photos, the very sketch created by one of the screenplay collaborators portraying Pamela while sitting and thoroughly studying the script, and the photos with an always radiant Julie Andrews.
I have nothing more to add, the rest you'll need to discover for yourself, but I'll just say one more thing...
Lovers of sugar all over the world unite!!
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