![]() ![]() But it’s also chock-full of horrors and casual cruelty inflicted on kids by adults, such as hurling children around by their hair and locking them in iron maiden-like punishment boxes. ![]() ![]() The chatty-catty narration of the 1988 novel by Roald Dahl constantly dives off in peculiar directions, makes frequent snarky asides and, like so much of Dahl’s work, is often laugh-aloud funny as it tells the story of the super-smart eponymous girl who defies her philistine parents to become a reader and goes up against bullying headmistress Miss Trunchbull. Like The Wizard of Oz or Peter Pan, the story of Matilda has endured in many different forms with tweaks and adjustments - first as a very English book for the young, then as an Americanized movie, and then a stage musical that’s now a film adaptation of that stage musical - precisely because it’s so damn weird. ![]()
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