Nanny Mcphee Movie Essay

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Movie Analysis Nanny McPhee
The story starts with an empty chair from a mother that passed away leaving her husband and seven children with the need to find someone to take care of them. The children are between the ages of 1 and 6 years old, and their father is struggling to find a nanny to take care of them at home. After the 17th nanny resigns, the father cannot longer find anyone that is up for that job. At that moment, Nanny McPhee, a nanny with special powers, magically appears to take care of the children and their severe behavior issues.
At their first encounter, the children think they can misbehave in order to get the new nanny out of their home. They are all screaming and running, and pretend not to hear what nanny McPhee is saying. However, she makes it a mission to teach the children 4 lessons before she goes. She is a professional nanny that has both empathy and magic, plus the experience to teach children how to proper behave, and how to be responsible for their actions. After the children realize that she is not afraid of them, and that their bad behavior won’t get them what they want, they develop a strong bound and respect towards her. Their behavior changes toward her, and towards those around them. It also affects the way they behave around their father. …show more content…

There is a moment in the movie, where the children ask their father to read a book for them, and he replies he is busy. Nanny McPhee looks at the expression of the girl that has the book and gets saddened. In their case, they display their lack of attention by misbehaving, and mirroring the actions of the eldest

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