No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I havenât seen in a movie before or since.
This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.
Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their âtrue familyâ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isnât punished for it or made to feel bad about âabandoning her familyâ. There isnât an underlying âbut theyâre your family and you have to love themâ or âtheyâre your family and they love you even if they donât show it well or do hurtful thingsâ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.
We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.
 #sometimes the family you start with isnât a good one #but you can find your own #family is not absolute #blood is not absolute
not to mention, Miss Honey is an abuse survivor herself (and in the book, sheâs only 23 years old)
they both got out. they both became each otherâs happy ending.
