Winnie the Pooh (the real story?)

There is a new film out, Goodbye Christopher Robin, which is the backstory of the famous character of Pooh and a tome about exploitation of children by the media.

Brian Sibley who has met some of the characters and written radio plays and a book based on the characters, has his take HERE

and links to books about human family behind Pooh.

Archives has the Pooh book here,  in case you lost your childhood copy and there is more if you sign up for their lending library.

my take on the film?

much of it is beautiful, but there are too many "oh I have PTSS/shell shock so I have to go bonkers when a balloon pops"...

he loves his son but is so self absorbed he doesn't see the harm to the kid... made worse when he sends him to boarding schools where the kid is bullied unmercifully.

and the wife character stinks. (I kept seeing her as Harley Quinn: see her "dream" of suburban life in Suicide Squad).

But the Nanny is wonderful, and her voice sounded familiar, maybe because She was played by the same actress who provided the voice for the mother in the film "Brave".

and the climax is when the son comes home from World War II, unexpectedly since they thought he was killed (presumably no letters via the Red Cross when he was a POW)...

And the son tells the father of how, when his unit was under fire, they started to sing a song from Pooh, (with different X rated words), and he recognized how it comforted them, giving them hope...

which is, of course, what artists do, or are supposed to do: retell the story of reality to show beauty and give hope.

 (not modern artists, who think being ugly and uberpolitical is the way to do).