This guy has too much time on his hands. It’s a movie made from a very popular book. The gist of the story is NOT Mr. Banks’ Mid-Life Crisis.
The Daddy goes to work to make money to afford his family a luxurious lifestyle. The Mom is kind of a ditz. The Children are taken care of by a Nanny (who is Magical!) which was pretty much the norm for that place in time and their economic status.
Does EVERYTHING need to be analyzed to the Nth degree? Everything?
Sit down, shut up and pass the popcorn! It’s Movie Night!
P.S. Don’t let this guy analyze ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ or, ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ or, ‘Doctor Doolittle’ or, ‘The Nutty Professor!’
I always took it be a criticism of parents who are detached and not terribly interested in their children - the dad a pain in ass taskmaster who worshiped the bank, the mother a paint in the ass women’s libber who blew off the kids to go protest, hiring the help to be the parents.
Indeed. I wonder what he'd make of "From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success"?