Film Analysis: The Film Matilda

The movie Matilda directed by Danny DeVito is about a little girl name Matilda who is enthusiastic and willing to learn but her parents on the hand do not care about that. Her parents are a grouchy couple that finally sends her to a school with a nice sympathetic teacher, Miss Honey, good friends, but a horrible principal, Miss Trunchbull. The moral of the story is that Miss Honey protects Matilda from Miss Trunchbull and her parents and eventually adopts Matilda because her parents want her to move. The very interesting part to the movie is that when Matilda was trying to put up with her parents and principal’s cruel behavior, she started innocently unleashing her telekinetic powers. With enough practice, she learned to control her powers and used them to push away her principal from the school. Eventually Matilda and Miss Honey lived a happy life together. One scene in particular caught my eye and could apply to what is being taught in this music class. This scene is when Miss Trunchbull is drinking out a glass of water with what she thinks to be a snake in her glass. The students are all laughing and Matilda corrects the principal and uses her telekinetic powers to
For example, there is a linear temporal order that helps understand the story to occur as a series of events unfolding in time. Danny DeVito had the chance of complicating the plot by rearranging the order of events, but he kept this clip very similar to the plot of the rest of the movie. Another aspect that is interesting in this segment was when Miss Trunchbull threw the little girl. This scene was taken in one shot, which means that the single length of film was continuously by one camera. Mise-en-scene was definitely a factor in this one scene from like the costume used and the staging of the fence with the garden of flowers. The uses of these techniques give the viewers different feelings based on these