MATILDA MOVIE

 

Matilda Wormwood is a brilliant young girl with obnoxious parents. She can speak like an adult from a young age. Matilda trains herself to read because her parents don't pay attention to her. She had already read a lot of books in the local library before she started primary school. Matilda spends her afternoons at the library, where a helpful librarian assists her in selecting famous works. Matilda's parents believe she should watch less television and read more. 

Mr. Wormwood, Matilda's father, is a shady automobile dealer. He utilizes a variety of unethical methods to persuade customers to buy cars that are total rubbish. He makes a concerted effort to educate Matilda's brother, Michael, for a career as a car salesperson. Matilda informs her father that he is untrustworthy, but this only enrages him.

Matilda chooses to retaliate against her parents for their treatment of her. She hopes it will make them less egotistical and cruel. She has her father glue his hat to his head, steals a neighbor's parrot to persuade the family that there is a ghost in the dining room, and replaces her father's hair tonic with bleaching dye. None of these pranks have a long-term impact on Matilda's parents, but they do help her learn how to cope with bullies.

Matilda eventually encounters an adult who cares about her future when she is old enough to attend school. Ms. Honey, her instructor, is compassionate and understanding. She soon observes Matilda's intelligence. Ms. Honey tries to transfer Matilda up a grade because she can read and write better than youngsters many years her senior. Ms. Honey fails because the school's Headmistress, Ms. Trunchbull, refuses to help her and believes Ms. Honey is only attempting to get rid of Matilda.

Ms. Trunchbull is a bully who bullies her students. Ms. Trunchbull snatches a pupil by the hair and throws her over a fence because she does not like the girl's pigtails. She also makes a student eat an entire cake in front of the entire class in the hopes of making him sick. Ms. Trunchbull is a bully, and Matilda wants to punish her. Matilda and Lavender, another girl in her class, become friends. Ms. Trunchbull is likewise disobedient, and Lavender wants to punish her.

Ms. Trunchbull, who is assigned to teach Matilda's class, is cruel to the pupils, even to Ms. Honey, who attempts to defend them. Ms. Trunchbull screams and jumps back after Lavender puts a newt in her water jug. Matilda stares at the glass that holds the newt and uses her mind to knock it over onto Ms. Trunchbull while Ms. Trunchbull is ranting at the students. Matilda tells Ms. Honey about what she has been up to. Ms. Honey has Matilda use her mind to push the glass over once more, and she is astounded by Matilda's strength. They go to Ms. Honey's little house for tea and to talk about Matilda's abilities.

Ms. Honey is noticeably poor, and Matilda inquires as to why she cannot afford a nicer home or suitable furniture. Ms. Honey explains that she was raised by a cruel aunt who took her father's home and kept all of Ms. Honey's money when the school paid her. Matilda is irritated by this because Ms. Honey has been so sweet to her, and Matilda despises bullies. Ms. Honey then discloses that Ms. Trunchbull is her aunt.

Matilda spends the next week honing her mental abilities and devising a strategy. Matilda lifts a piece of chalk and writes a message on the blackboard as Ms. Trunchbull is teaching her class, making it appear as if the message is from the ghost of Ms. Honey's father. Ms. Trunchbull passes out from exhaustion. She plans to leave town once she has recovered. Ms. Honey receives a letter from Ms. Trunchbull containing her father's will, which Ms. Trunchbull had kept from her. She inherits her father's house as well as his savings account. Matilda pays a visit to Ms. Honey at her new home, and their relationship blossoms. Matilda is also promoted to a much higher grade at school, and she loses her mental abilities because of the new schooling.

Matilda returns home one day to find her family feverishly putting their belongings into the car. Her father informs Matilda that they would be relocating to Spain and will not be returning. Matilda rushes over to Ms. Honey, who informs her that her father is doing business with criminals and that he is about to escape the country. Matilda returns to her house with Ms. Honey and asks her father if she can stay and live with her. Matilda's father agrees, and the rest of the family abandons her.