Let us go and fly a kite!

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2015)

I've just finished watching Saving Mr. Banks​, I have mascara tracks running down my cheeks, soaked from the streams of tears that flowed as I watched. I'm not sure I've ever experienced such a poignant, deeply sad, yet buoyantly beautiful film in my life. Such difficult experiences for a child to make sense of, and out of it, emerged an adult who created such joy for so many through the most wonderful Mary Poppins​. It took a genius, a man who rose from his own ashes of a harsh childhood to help unlock the magic of Mary, the magic of Mrs Travers so that the world's children, and the adults who emerged from within those children could experience the wonderful joy and magic of flying a kite repaired by a previously broken father. The delicacy and power that this film tells this story is one that I've rarely seen matched.