Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of watching Christopher Robin, a continuation of the Disney’s ongoing series of Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh was so influential throughout my childhood and in my upbringing, movies like The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Piglets Big Movie and The Tigger Movie all spring to mind. Watching Christopher Robin not only made me extremely nostalgic of my childhood but also made me really reflect upon how I’ve grown up, right up until this point in my life. The overarching themes of loss of childhood innocence, growing up and family ring true in the movie which has really prompted me to write about it in my blog, considering my upcoming film.

Within the movie Christopher Robin returns to the 100 acre woods after stumbling upon Winnie the Pooh in a crucial time in his life. This leads to an expedition following Christopher Robin and eventually his daughter in trying to help Christopher Robin with his work and inevitably his family. The movie explores childhood imagination and eventually the loss of it when you grow up in the cold harsh reality of the world, which is shown explicitly through the character of Christopher Robin. This made me reflect upon my own upbringing, especially since I grew up with these films and feel as if I’m at a point where life is getting all too real and stressful. At the end of the day the value and love of family is what is most important in this movie, despite all other aspects of life that seem stressful and important. Which I believe is true, and coming into this film project I feel as if watching this movie came at a really good time.

I live away from home, and sometimes I get a little bit homesick especially when big life moments are happening and I’m here and not there. Doing this film project makes me feel just a little bit closer to home, re-watching Pooh and Christopher Robin on an adventure again puts me right back on my lounge room floor with my brothers watching any and all of the Pooh tales over and over again. With my upcoming film project, I’ll literally be shuffling and deciphering hours of footage from my brothers and I’s childhood, but from a completely different perspective. Which is exactly how I felt watching Christopher Robin, nostalgic, sad and grown up. I feel as if I’ve taken my childhood for granted considering how hard it is to be truly independent and away from your family when you’vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0URpDxIjZrQe been a cohesive tight unit for so long.

This film was really well done, despite some tacky-cliché scripting work I really enjoyed the film. It made me feel sad yet confronted by how quickly time has passed and how I’ve essentially grown up like Christopher Robin. It’s made me reflect upon my value of family, as well as how important my childhood upbringing really was to me. I feel like these feelings will come through as I start to shuffle through some footage and start to create my film.

For those interested here is the trailer, I’d highly recommend checking it out: