Never need a reason, never need a rhyme
Veronica got a copy of Mary Poppins for Christmas. It's a hit with her, and is currently the longest feature that we've introduced her to. Just the thing for snowy days stuck in the house.
Having seen it a bunch of times this month, I'm confused by what the message or moral of the story is supposed to be. The two moppets in the story are being ignored at the start of the film, but gradually their father is convinced to lighten up a bit and show more affection.
The weird bit is that their mother is there throughout the film, but doesn't do much of anything. The audience is told (rather than shown) that she spends her time and energy being a Suffragette, but she doesn't get a character arc at all. She still slightly befuddled and largely ineffective at the end of the film, just as she started. And while it's all well and good that the father will be more attentive to the children when he's home, he's not going to be doing the work that Mary Poppins did, he'll still be a banker. It's almost as if the mother is another child, perhaps older but no more capable of fixing the situation than the other two.
Disney just had no idea what to do with a mom.
Having seen it a bunch of times this month, I'm confused by what the message or moral of the story is supposed to be. The two moppets in the story are being ignored at the start of the film, but gradually their father is convinced to lighten up a bit and show more affection.
The weird bit is that their mother is there throughout the film, but doesn't do much of anything. The audience is told (rather than shown) that she spends her time and energy being a Suffragette, but she doesn't get a character arc at all. She still slightly befuddled and largely ineffective at the end of the film, just as she started. And while it's all well and good that the father will be more attentive to the children when he's home, he's not going to be doing the work that Mary Poppins did, he'll still be a banker. It's almost as if the mother is another child, perhaps older but no more capable of fixing the situation than the other two.
Disney just had no idea what to do with a mom.