Goodbye Christopher Robin

A movie about parenting and writing, and suggestions for a sequel

In this scene, Billy Moon is saying, “I think we probably need more floaty breath”. The purpose of the balloons being, to make Owl’s door rise up to his house. It does not work. Screenshot from Goodbye Christopher Robin by author.

Talk about full circle.

This is a movie experience article, not a review. It is a biography about a fiction which affected reality, but the biography probably affected some realities too.

It isn’t all happy hundred acre wood! Some parts are a hundred percent horror.

This movie made me weep and there are parts of it which are just like horror. It reminded me of the Ramayana, where things are going along swimmingly in the forest but Ravana swoops down on Sita and then the war starts. So brace yourself when you hit play.

Why a sleepy biography about the author of a male bear with a woman’s name?

This movie should be seen by everybody who writes nonfiction. If a writer who is a parent, or one who writes everyday, hasn’t seen it, they are allowing their writing to miss the vegetable in the vegetable stew.

Alan A. Milne, the author of the Winnie The Pooh books, and his wife Daph, are parents to Christopher Robin Milne, also known as Billy Moon. Billy’s Nanny, Nou, is a central character.