The beginning can be revisited endlessly) Winter, Londoners on the Thames... And the magic owl flies. The film is childish, but it is a lot for both a teenager and an adult (and children will not notice this, that is, it remains childish). It is kind, festive, but very modern. Separate respect for the IT girls of their time) After all, an engineer and an IT specialist are synonymous. I loved the way our older sister and brother explained to us during the film: You see, computers and iPads didn’t know how to make, but they were trying to invent them. Drosselmeer and Marie’s mother invent different versions of devices with moving men, but now you see Marie fixing these devices. Do you realize that her kids will be able to come up with a movie and a phone? And their children will combine all this and make an iPad. This is how a modern child sees this story.
The film was made before the war, but it has so much good for children who lost their mother (as the main character of the film), that it seems that the authors knew in advance about the bombed houses and saw a photo of a boy standing in his yard at the grave of his mother, who was buried in a sandbox by neighbors. In the middle is an even more visionary scene, with an army of soldiers with lead hearts emerging from the Kremlin gates. Poor Tchaikovsky, if only he knew what a feat it would be for world culture not to "cancel" his music for Christmas 2023. . .