Saving Others

Saving Mr. Banks is not your ordinary movie.  A long-time (from earliest childhood memories) a fan of Walt Disney, and a special cheerleader for Mary Poppins (a film now 50 years old), I saw more into the current film than just the history of how the classic that has delighted generations, came to be. It seemed to fit right in with yesterday's Slice of Bread encouraging us like Jesus to see our mission as releasing captives (no matter what bondage encumbers them), helping them to see, giving them an alternative vision of life when it seems that "all is woe." During the Golden Years of Disney in the '40's, '50's and early '60's, when Walt was live and chose the books and subjects for the Disney films, there was always the theme of making it through adversity to "living happily ever after."  Those of us who grew up on those classics didn't realize how much of an evangelizer Walt was without being preachy. Happily, Walt's upbeat view of life no matter what, as portrayed by Mary Poppins, carries over in Saving Mr. Banks.  Layered behind the delightful Poppins books, was the very sad and dark side of life that plagued their author, P.L. Travers. The battle between her, Walt and his gifted team, after a very moving conversation with him  yielded to a liberation, a redemption that freed her up of a past that was killing her soul, brought tears and laughter back into her life , and gives the audiences an example of how we, by living our faith and convictions, by persistence and by speaking from the heart with true compassion, can do the same for others...  The film is the Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord all rolled up in an entertaining, infectious, successful treat. It's the Walt Disney formula that has worked since the late '30's to liberate the ghosts which haunt the likes of a P.L. Travers, which, unfortunately are so rampant..  See it, and you'll understand.
Bro. Rene