Movie · Netflix · 1996
Pass it on
Matilda
45Watch it awake.
A child who ought to be protected, and mostly protects herself. The book is the good. The revenge is the extra.
The review
Matilda is a true picture of a child failed by her parents and a false picture of what she should do about the headmistress. The library is the honorable part. The telekinetic revenge is the part a child will practice in imagination. Watch it with an older child if you watch it, and separate the two. Being unseen at home is a real wound. Being able to humiliate an adult is not the cure the film thinks it is, until the last scene, when a teacher adopts her. Prefer the last scene to the tricks.
Journal
Keep Matilda in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Spookley the Square Pumpkin
55 instead of 45
Spookley the Square Pumpkin is still a family film, and it scores 55 instead of 45. What you gain is temperance: One short fable.
The eight
- 4Industry
She reads. Reading is the one discipline the film respects without joking.
- 3Household
The parents are a warning, not a joke the film can leave alone. The teacher is the adult who finally acts as one.
- 3Piety
Books are the nearest thing to reverence.
- 6Courage
She stands up to a bully who runs a school. She also punishes, and the film likes the punishment.
- 4Republic
A school that is a tyranny. The remedy is one good teacher, not a reform.
- 4Temperance
Cruelty is the villain and, too often, the entertainment.
- 6Truth
The parents are accurately small. The girl is not sentimentalized into sweetness.
- 6Stewardship
What she is handed, at last, is a house with the right adult in it.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Matilda · 45IMDb
