Christopher Robin
I’m not someone who watches movies often, but every once in a while I watch this one movie that I end up recommending to everyone I come across. This is just one of those.
Christopher Robin is a movie about a man named (you guessed it) Christopher Robin who happens to run into his childhood friend Winnie the Pooh, who helps him reconnect with his childhood and all the joys of life that he had forgotten.
Over the lockdown last year, I went through a phase where life had begun to feel very monotonous. I was fairly depressed due to the state of quite literally everything around me during the pandemic, and to counter this feeling I had begun overworking myself. It got me to a point where I would feel guilty for not doing any work. That’s where this movie came in.
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I got lucky enough one day to take some time off and watch something, and so I settled for this. In the movie, Christopher is shown as a young boy playing in the Hundred Acre Wood with his friends Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and many other beloved characters from my childhood. As a kid, my favourite toys were my Pooh Bear plushie and an Eeyore squeaky toy, and thus I felt instantly connected to this movie.
As the movie progresses, Christopher get’s older and life happens to him. He gets shifted to boarding school, and soon after he gets enlisted in the army, after which he continues to live a fairly miserable life in a failing marriage and a job he doesn’t like. All through this time, he slowly forgets his magical childhood completely. As a father, he is quite neglecting of his daughter. He plans to send her away to boarding school just as he was.
In a way, watching this movie made me slowly snap back to reality and made me hyper-aware of the way I had been treating myself as of late. Just as Pooh slowly but surely reminded Christopher of all the joys he had been missing out on in his life, I was also reminded.
The movie trope where adults are forced to reconnect with their childhood to bring happiness back in their life is definitely a commonly used one and yet it is still has a very relevant message. Even psychology tells us that many problems that people face as adults root back to events from their childhood.
All in all, I think this is a great movie to watch with family. Winnie the Pooh has always been a beloved character for many and to see him come to life and help us reminisce our childhood days was a pleasure.
