Movie Review and thinking activity on Movie- 'Matilda'

Thinking activity based on ELT task.

Movie Review: MATILDA [1996]

On 6/7/2018 there was an academic movie screening of “MATILDA” In our department. Story was written by Roald Dahl and directed by Danny Davito. Roald is known as unpleasant person; who may explain why he wrote stories like that which nursed the grudges of childhood and he distrusted adults. He’s writing out of strong emotions and not just to be cute.

“MATILDA” is a blackly comic, delightfully of-the-wall picture that both the kids and adults will lap up. Name of the movie is based on the protagonist character Matilda; very intelligent girl with incredible talent and a bright mind, born and raised in the most disgusting family ever a child could get. Her parents neglected her when they are not insulting her. In the family of no-hopers a bright star of heaven born; for them having Matilda in house was somewhat unplanned. Her father was car salesman; who sell overprized cars with stolen parts, he has nothing like moral values.

Matilda with her father and brother.

Matilda left at home alone all day, so now she started acquiring from circumstances. To get rid of suppuration; she taught herself to read books. When her flirtatious, white trash mom and stupid father left her; she walked to library and started devouring one book after another. At the age of 6 she read that many books which a normal adult can’t able to read throughout the life; she has read not only "Heidi" and "Ivanhoe," but also "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and Moby "Dick". 

Matilda has read almost children library and now she wanted to join school, when she asked her father for school he denies her by telling that you are only 4,how they are irresponsible towards her that they even don’t know Matilda’s real age. When she said that she is really six years old at that time her father said:

Matilda's father worn her that if she tries to be smarter than him, she will be punish. 

A little little child was terrified; she cannot understand what is bad in being smart.

Once she asked her parents to buy a book for her but she was totally ignored. Her father advised to watch TV, instead of reading book.

So, this way ability of bright star was totally rejected. As movie progressed and when her father met one sadistic lady,  the redoubtable Trunchbull he announces that he has at last found the right school for Matilda. Trunchbull, played by Pam Ferris with great zest and well-hidden but genuine humor, is not a nice person. “Sit down, you squirming worm of vomit!” she says to the hapless Matilda at one point, and later calls her “You villainous sack of dog slime!” 

When a cute little blond girl dares to wearer hair in pigtails, Trunchbull seizes the child by the pigtails, swings her around and hurls her through the air like a hammer in the Olympics and of course the movie does not neglect to show the girl narrowly miss a spike fence before landing safely in a flower bed.

Children are punished by solitary confinement in a steamy closet with nails sticking through the walls. But redemption comes in the person of a saintly teacher, Miss Honey, who is amazed when little Matilda does difficult math problems in her head, and eventually becomes her guardian and best friend.She encourage children and save them most of the time from Trunchbull’s  atrocity. Miss Honey find herself inside Matilda and thus she connected herself more and more with her. 

Matilda discovering latent telekinetic powers and whipping up culinary masterpieces in the kitchen even though she has to stand on a chair to reach the work surfaces.So after that she helped Miss Honey also to get her doll as well as her home from Trunchbull and at the vary end of the movie Matilda's father was kept by coaps and thus they decided to left the city, Matilda was adopted by Miss Honey and then they live happy life together.

So, it was story of Matilda which I found, mostly based on one's will power and unity. How the books can change our lives that we have seen, thus now let me tell you about my favourite book and it's impect on me.

My favourite book:


I never read a book like that one, which change my entire attitude towards life.It was the first book which I have read in English Language, before that I have never read any book in English. The very first attractive thing in this book was its cover page.

Second most attractive thing was name itself and I was curious to read this one as soon as possible."THE SECRET" was the book which changed me totally, I was very much impressed by the thoughts and ideas given by author, this book mainly concerns on "Will Power", it speaks about 'Positive thinking' and many more.I was not that much self respected person,which I'm today is. This way I can connect 'The secret' with my life.