![]() Yet the magic of childhood and mysteries beyond the everyday vision is decidedly there and, quite honestly, I loved this little 85 years old story, in this case narrated by Olivia Colman, a very British reading, clear, nicely modulated, and well articulated with character voices (and, thank goodness, no dreadful chimney sweep accents). ![]() Mary Poppins is a nanny with magical powers who comes to the Banks England household to help the children, and the parents, learn more about the power of imagination. Mary Poppins is a magical nanny who brings a family together through whimsical imagination. The film and the book are, predictably, not the same: there is much more brightness and laughter in the film, the Nanny who agreed to stay in the Banks' household 'until the wind changed' less stern and self centred, too. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Mary Poppins. ![]() But I never read the original book until now. With little else that we could do, we watched video films, including that of Mary Poppins which we saw at least once every day. ![]() Some 37 years ago, my three years old daughter was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer and, together, we spent most of the next fifteen months in near isolation in a small hospital room as she endured the radical chemotherapy, mostly bed bound and and very ill. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |