Saving Mr. Banks was one of my holiday movies this year. This time it wasn't about Christmas or heroic acts from fantasy movies like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. It was pretty a down to earth story, just with a little touch of magic, not literally of course. Stories like that make's me to remember such movies like Finding Neverland or The Fall, although everything here is a bare reality not like the examples mentioned before. What really makes it similar to those ones is a special connection between a little girl and a parental or an older friend figure which takes her to wonderful world of fantasy and dreams. Right about here you may ask whaat? Yes, primarily theme surrounds the making of Mary Poppins movie and the struggles which Volt Disney and his whole staff has to overcome in handling a bitter book author which hold all the rights to the story they want to make alive on screens. But the key is in the title itself "Saving Mr. Banks". And then P. L. Travers asks herself: "Do you really think that Mary Poppins came to save the children?", you can't help but wander what's the real message. I've seen some great credible acting from Emma Thompson (even my sister couldn't bear the idea of how bitter that old lady was in every scene by complaining, lacking smile in every scene). Despite this fact, I kept enjoying those flashbacks as the reflections of dreamy childhood and it's metamorphosis to gloomy grown up world when things go wrong (well done Colin Farrell). There's one important thought left out of it. Are we all meant to eventually loose happiness and faith in life when this harsh world hits us?
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