Christopher Robin is an American comedy-drama film that premiered on July 30 th , 2018 in California. The film base it’s the story on Christopher Robin and his family that include a wife and girl. It also features other characters that include his childhood friends; Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga, Owl, Rabit, Roo, and Eeyore. It features scenes such as the Hundred Acre Wood, school, workplace, and home in a dramatic yet comical manner. As a result, it develops several themes that include family, love and their interaction with work. This paper discusses two ways the theme of family is more important than work is developed in the film.
The theme develops from the conflict in Christopher Robin’s family and struggling work. Christopher portrays a character that value work over family. After securing a Job as an efficiency expert at Winslow language, a crisis requires him to resolve the problem by decreasing the weekend expenditure by 20% and make the company solvent. As a result, he is forced to cancel his union with family on holiday in Sussex. His wife chooses not to park his bag and goes to the weekend without him an indicator of their deteriorating relationship.
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The demonstration that, the valuing of family over work provides solutions to problems present at home and the workplace also develop the theme. Christopher's reunion with his childhood friends mainly Winnie the Pooh, enables him to fix his deteriorating family relationship. He is seen to abandon work in the search for his daughter Madeline who was en route to bringing him work-related papers. Although her daughter loses all the papers except one, he finds a solution in it. The solution involves sending workers on paid leave. It is vital to note that the solution that makes the company solvent yet emphasizes the importance of family over work. At that point, he realizes the importance of family and promises not to take her daughter to boarding school as earlier proposed. He retreats to the Hundred Acre Wood with his family and friends amending further his family relationship.
In conclusion, this paper discusses two ways the theme of family is more important than work is developed in the film. First, it highlights the disarray caused in the family unit and workplace by Christopher Robin's decision to value work over family. However, after a reunion with childhood friends, Christopher Robin realizes that family is more important than work. It results in him providing a proposal that saves the company, enables the employees to concentrate on their family during a paid leave and also, reunites him with his family and friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
