Matilda Movie Analysis

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Introduction This signature assignment will focus on analyzing the movie Matilda, a 1996 American film that was directed by Danny DeVito. This analysis will focus on the social/emotional characteristics of Matilda, the special needs based on those characteristics, the response to those characteristics of certain individuals in her life, and I will also be critiquing this movie.
Brief Summary This movie is about a bright little girl by the name of Matilda. She was born into a very unusual family that didn't care about her. Her family included her father, mother and brother, the Wormwoods. Matilda was forced to stay home till the age of 6, while she was home she learns to do many things on her own, by the age of four she had read all …show more content…

The movie narrator even stated “They were wrapped up in their own silly world, that they didn't pay much attention to her”. She was left home alone, while dad went to work and mom would go play bingo. She didn't mind that at all, she prefered to be alone. Families have a significant impact on their child's life, they need to create an open communication and listen to what they have to say, spending time with them and just getting to know them goes a long way. This was not the case for Matilda, she was respected and wasn't allowed to express herself and her family was very judgmental towards her. The father even said, she wasn't a Wormwood because she was so different from them, they materialistic and would do anything to get money, even if that meant “cheating” as Matilda called …show more content…

She was a very courageous individual who was born into a family that was very different from her, and sadly she did not have the support she needed. As the movie narrator said, “When she was two she learned how to take care of herself”, even though her parents didn't pay much attention to her, that wasn't an issue to her because she liked it that way. Clark states, “The family establishes the foundation and climate of love and caring that the influence how each member views the others and operates in the world” (Clark, 2013), that was not the case with Matilda, because her family did not understand her and talked down on her. An example of this is was when Matilda asks for a book, and was is immediately shut down. She finds her way to a library and is a frequent visitor, eventually she ends up getting a library card. This touches base to the locus control that Matilda illustrates for reading. Clark states the

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