The Wizard Of Oz: a movie of many feelings!

The truth is that long ago when I was  a child I saw many movies, every day saw a movie and almost all saw more three times, I was a quiet girl and I liked for example “The Little Mermaid” , “The beautiful and the Beast”,” Aladdin”,  and among others that I cant remember right now. Watch movies was one of my biggest hobbies and I enjoyed it a lot, meanwhile my mom was happy that I stayed indoors and not go out as much as other children. However I was a very sensitive child and things affect me very much, if a movie was sad I cried and cried nonstop, or where certain bad things came out I was really scared, then I used to dream nightmares later in the night and woke up at midnight and I used to go  to my parents' bed. I remember that something strange was going on with the movie "The Wizard Oz" because I loved that movie and I think I saw at least ten times in my childhood, but at the same time I was really scared that movie by the witch that appeared and monkeys that had slaves, I was really scared that the swirl also kept house, because although Dorothy was a dream I thought everything was real and very scary that this could happen to my house. Besides the fact of losing my house was something that terrified me and I was always afraid that because my mom had that fear and now I think that she transfered to me. Although not a film that I will talk hate the Wizard of Oz, because although it was a movie that I liked but its cost a lot of bad dreams that brought me during my childhood. This film was created in 1939.The starring was Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. The management were involved in Victor Fleming, Mervyn LeRoy, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor.The film is based on the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

The movie had parts that I would take of for the mental health of the children who see it, for example at the beginning when carrying the puppy dorothy, that part I didn´t like because I remember that I had a dog when I was a child that had been taken  also so  I suffered a lot and I quess that happens to many children in the world, then that happen in the movie saddened me because it reminded to me of my bad experience,  also  Dorothy cried in despair and I don’t think that’s can be  good for a child to see that. Another part that I didn´t liked was a witch when it drop a house as shown above and you shrink the feet, that image I really dont  know why but appeared many times in my dreams.

Obviously everything about the witch terrified me, from their appearance to their shouts and laughter. But the part that I liked least was when the witch was burned, I was very scared that scene. Finally, the part that it was desapointed to me  was when the magician doesn´t has real powers, it gave me a lot of anger as a child and  of course didn´t understood the true meaning of that, I just  cried of rage and thinking that Dorothy would not return home.

 

By María de los Ángeles Guerra Owen