Saving Mr. Banks Review

This movie makes me love Mary Poppins even more and find connections behind the Disney movie and its backstory. There is so much that an author puts into stories. Using personal experiences or first hand observations can help give that kind of emotion readers connect with.

Walt’s exuberant and optimistic displays and Travers’ hesitance to change her ideal of the past show the love and innovation used in beloved Disney stories. What I love is how she reimagines and recreates her past to make her father into the hero she always wanted him to be. She gave him another chance to be kind. That is an amazing gift from a daughter who was put through the unstable antics of a dreamer.

Walt takes her creation and makes it brighter. He sees her vision, though it takes quite a bit of work, and makes it into a Disney spectacle. She may fight him every step of the way, but when she goes home she takes a giant Mickey Mouse with her.

We all want to cling to a bit of magic now and then.

She clings to the magic of her childhood, and fixing the problems that her parents could not. He clings to his dream of the magical world of Disney and what it means to create.

This movie not only explores the delightful product of Disney, but shows the process of creation as well. For me, that’s the best part. I love knowing how a movie is pushed into existence. It’s not enough to know the story, I need the backstory too. I love that she creates Mary Poppins as a way to change her childhood. She fixes her father and makes him a hero, as shown by the title, she saves Mr. Banks.