MOVIE REVIEW: Saving Mr. Banks



Disney is known to be one of the most important and greatest world societies, a real multinational industry based on children dreaming with genuine, unforgettable and perfect works. Even if today there are not so many movies or productions worthy of being "classics", there are still the old ones, which can put up a fight to this day, surprising elders and younger audiences, through a simple and literally clean care for detail and feelings of watchers. We'll take in exam "Saving Mr. Banks", the movie about the movie Mary Poppins, which is about what happens before, during and after the movie productions, as well as what changed in Traver's mind through the experience.

The Story
This movie is based on the real story and feelings that Travers felt before the movie productions. 20 years have passed since Walt Disney called the writer to convince her giving him the rights of the character, and we start watching the situation unfold from the moment Travers goes on a flight from London to Hollywood. Even though we know the ending of the movie, what surprised me the most was how Disney went all out for character's details, and how well they are built in the whole story. The cast is pretty small, but while we watch the story we want to see (the movie one, that is), we are at the same time watching a story of a weird child in a visibly older aged family, which we'll discover about in the movie. There are a lot of similarities between what happens in the movie and what actually is done by Travers and characters. We learn how characters behaved at that time, as well as the sources for a lot of iconic scenes from the original Mary Poppins movie. Walt Disney, reenacted by Tom Hanks, is literally perfect. He's natural, never out of place, resulting excellent in how the story proceeded. At last, the few discrepancies in the readaptation of the movie are supported by a convincing character development, more than how the story goes.


Graphics and Sound
The movie is literally an authentic jewel: 60s Hollywood and London are mixed as good as milk can be in tea, and a lot of Disney costumes and plushies from the 60s have been used, resulting huge figures in a complete Disney movie. Music is pretty nice and never out of place, it accompanies every moment pretty well in however condition it can be. Who saw Mary Poppins can truely understand how nostalgia can play a huge trick while watching this movie, which can be (both on its own and saw after Mary Poppins) full of character and strong like few.

Final comment
"Saving Mr. Banks" is one of the most well done storic movies I've ever seen. It has a perfect mix between plot and character development, going on for the whole story, helping the watcher empathizing with Travers, in a nostalgic, melancholic, sweet and special story. Prepare your tissues, this movie is great.


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