Winnie the Pooh | Thoughts on the movie

Overview

In class today we watched a movie called Christopher Robbin. It was about the famous author by the name A.A. Milne, or Alan Alexander Milne if you want, which wrote the worlds ever best-selling child's book, Winnie the Pooh. The book included many characters he invented while living in the countryside. He was also inspired by his son who also is a character represented in the book. The book still remains one of the best child stories and is owned © by Disney until 2026.

A.A. Milne's

He was born and grew up in London but had a background from Scotland. When the first world war started he was sent out to fight. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and so he thought. Luckily, he survived the war but not without costs. It is said that 16 million people died during world war one. 

Milne was diagnosed with PTSD which is translated to Post Traumatic Stress Disease. But he was not the only one that got that syndrome. There were several others among the survivors that got the syndrome. This was because of the terrible conditions they lived in those years. The soldiers lived in trenches and it was bombing and gunfire all the time. There was no peace to find, and they had to be ready at all times. 

After the war, he settled down in London and found himself a wife. They had a child and moved to the countryside because he never found peace in London as he was traumatized after the war. It was there his son grew up and Winnie the Pooh was made.

Christopher Robbin

Christopher Robin was the son of Milne and kind of the creator of Winnie the Poog. He is at least related to the story as he is kind of in it himself. He and his father were often in the woods and that was the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. He was soon famous and had to go to interviews while he was only a little kid. Therefore he felt like he missed a part of this childhood.

The only thing he really wanted as a kid was to be normal and have a childhood, but that was unfortunately not the case for him. He only wanted love from his parents and to know that they cared. He did not like that his father wrote about him he wanted him to write to him. Even his toys were taken into the story. Nevertheless, he loved his father because he grew up with him and almost always stayed with him. 

When he was younger he had a nanny which was taking care of him. He really liked her and asked her to marry him (kind of as a joke). But she married someone else and moved. After he realized he was really sad. Soon he forgot about her.

It did not take long before he went to a private boys school. He was bullied and had a terrible time there. The reason for the bullying was most likely because of the other boys being jealous because he had all the fame for being in Winnie the Pooh. It was not rare for him to be pushed down the stairs at school. 

In later years he was also sent to fight in the second world war. Everyone was afraid that he would die in the war, but luckily he survived, despite the fact that he was found missing for a period of time. It was a happy ending but still sad because of all the trauma they both had gone through. 

That was also the case for many others, which is the reason why Winnie the Pooh was such a big success. It was a glimt of light in the dark, between both wars.