Analyse af filmen 'Goodbye Christopher Robin'

The film “Goodbye Christopher” is about the family of the writer of Winnie the Pooh. His name was Alan Alexander Milne or “blue” as they call him in the film. His son is called Christopher Robin Milne, but they called him “Billy Moon”. Christopher’s mother was called Daphne De Selincourt. The nanny of the little boy also plays a big role in the film, and her name was Olive, but Billy called her “Nou”.

These four are the main characters in Goodbye Christopher Robin.

Alan Alexander was a soldier in world war 2 which resulted in him getting the diagnosis called PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This meant that he got flashbacks of the war. For example, there is a scene in the film where Nou and Billy came home late, and Billy had a balloon with him. When the balloon popped, A. A. Milne got a huge fright, and got flashbacks of the bombs back in WW2. A. A. Milne and his son Billy didn’t have a good relationship to each other at the start of the movie. Even when Billy was a baby, they were rarely home, and it was always Nou that looked after him. This led to Billy having a good relationship to Nou. When Nou had to take time off to look after her sick mother, and Daphne went back to London, Billy got very upset, because he did not want Nou to leave. Billy and his father’s relationship got better when they were alone in the house together. They started to play together, and that is actually when A. A. Milne started to get the ideas of the stories “Winnie the Pooh”. You could see that Billy was happy to spend some time with his father, and the other way around too. But when A. A. Milne published “Winnie the Pooh” and the books where a success, Billy got mad at his father. He told him that he never wanted the credits and fame for “Winnie the Pooh”, He just wanted his father to love him and be there for him. A. A. Milne loved his son, because he was heartbroken when they thought that Billy was dead.