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14Aug2015
godz. - 11:54

Kids have the power.

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We have known for a long time that some people should not have children. Unfortunately, unpredictable fortune endows such people with children easily and light-heartedly. Within such families only youngsters with big determination can become good people. The titular Matilda in the book by Roald Dahl has just such a will to fight by using her superior intelligence. The book won the distinction of best book for children in 1988, and I completely don't understand why I came across it only today. But better late than never.

 

In the home of a couple of stupid, dishonest and greedy parents there lives a real diamond. This sensitive, clever young girl does not find support from her closest relatives and learns how to read and do complicated mathematical tasks on her own. She discovers at the same time a taste for revenge. Under the friendly eye of a librarian she explores literature, starting from children's fiction and ending with classics by Dickens and Hemingway. Finally, she goes to school where she meets two extremely different kinds of personality; the delightful  teacher, Miss Honey, and the authoritarian and cruel headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. Matilda also uses her intelligence and extraordinary skills at school to punish wicked adults. "Matilda" is a book for everybody; a happy, smiling lesson which is ideal for a summer holiday afternoon with children. The value of it will be recognized by intelligent adults as well. This book should be obligatory for anyone whose intention is the enlargement of their family, and for these adults who think that being an adult gives them the right to speak down to children. The book teaches us that little people also have intelligence, ideas, and determination, which adults do not expect them to have. What can a small child understand after all.....

 

In 1996 a film version of "Matilda", directed by Danny DeVito, was released. The movie captures perfectly the fine atmosphere of the book. The actors playing the main roles were ideal. Mara Wilson as Matilda moves you and makes you smile. Danny DeVito, playing the insensitive know-it-all father, makes us laugh till we cry. Matilda's mother, an idle and unambitious women, was played by Rhea Perlman. Embeth Davitz as Miss Honey is warm and gentle, and Pam Feris, who plays Miss Trunchbull, is worthy of special notice and applause. Her special acting method sometimes made me wonder what sex the character was supposed to be. It was cruelty and dishonesty played masterfully.

 

If you haven't come across Matilda before, I strongly recommend it. It is worth meeting this little girl and realizing that children have extraordinary power. It only needs to be discovered.

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