By A. O. Scott
(Who, by the way, always gets me thinking… Great film critic.)
…Walt, in a late, decisive conversation, explains that their job as storytellers is to “restore order” to the chaos of life and infuse bleak realities with bright, happy colors. Imagination, in other words, is a form of repression. Joy is a kind of denial. Mary Poppins may have had a different idea: She is, on the page, committed to solving problems rather than wishing them away. But the Disney version has proved more powerful, more seductive and, it almost goes without saying, more profitable.
via ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson – NYTimes.com.