Mary Poppins

"Life is messy, difficult, dark and complex. Feuds can be made up but never completely solved. Books can try to reflect this sadness and lack of resolution as P.L. Travers books did, even for children but Hollywood films take a different approach. In a way it's like Hollywood itself is a Mary Poppins or an aunt Ellie. It's tidying up the nursery, it's finding a way through the chaos. We want to believe as much now as we did in 1964 that redemption's possible and that is both the lie and the miracle of Hollywood films, that it all be neat and tidy at the end. At some deep human level, it's that order, we crave" - Victoria Coren Mitchell