moniquill:
No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.
This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.
Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and livess happily ever after because of it.
We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.
A-Z Favorite Characters of the ’90s : M
“I really hope you have a search warrant. According to a Constitutional law book I read in the library, if you don’t have one you can lose your job or even go to federal prison… There’s another crime in the making— your car is about to run a stop sign.”
finally getting into those chocolates!
Ms. Honey: You like to read?
Matilda: Oh yes; I love to read.
Ms. Honey: What do you like to read?
Matilda: Everything.
-_- excuse me while I glue a hat to your scalp.
oh, matthew lawrence, how I wanted to marry you =P
this movie never, ever gets old for me <3
