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Monday, May 27, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
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Matilda is practically perfect in every way. It's been a long time since I saw the 1996 film, and longer since I read Roald Dahl's book. It only took about 10 minutes before the memories came flooding back. What I realised this time is that Matilda is basically Stephen King's Carrie for kids. Both stories feature precocious schoolgirls being ground down by authority figures, treated monstrously by their parents and repeatedly publicly humiliated. This intense pressure awakens latent psychic superpowers and the girls go on a roaring rampage of revenge against those that have wronged them.
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