Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Paddington


"Paddington"

          When he first shows up at London's Paddington Station, the smallish orphan bear with the bright red hat is feeling … a little lost, really. He knows he's been sent here from Darkest Peru to find a loving human family to take him in. The sign his aunt put around his neck says as much. But the reactions from the many Londoners bustling past him aren't quite what he expected. They hardly even listen long enough for him to politely introduce himself.
Perhaps he isn't doing it right.
        His loving Aunt Lucy—who, by now, is settled comfortably in a home for retired bears—had told him about human ways, you see. She assured him that they would "not have forgotten how to treat a stranger." After all, the English explorer wh
o long ago met Aunt Lucy and her husband Uncle Pastuzo in the wilds of Peru had happily taken the time to teach them about everything from the joys of human speech to the wonders of marmalade.
         Finally, a human family does stop long enough to listen to the little bear. Well, actually the kind woman of the family, Mrs. Brown, stops to listen. Her husband, Mr. Brown, doesn't want to get involved. And their two children, Jonathan and Judy, aren't all that excited about the delay either.But the Mrs. can't bear leaving such a lonely little bear at the station on such a blustery, rainy night. She says they should at least take the talking fur ball—whom she cheerfully dubs Paddington—into their home for the night. Then in the morning they could direct him to the right people.
       Mr. Brown, who is an insurance assessor, worries over the ramifications, though. Why, bringing a real bear into your home—even a talking one—increases a family's risk of damage by some 4,000%, he tells his wife. Mrs. Brown assures him that, again, it will just be for the night. And that's not such a very long time, is it? What could possibly go wrong?

     Paddington silently agrees to come, giving them all a beary grin. After a night of good rest, he can go padding around the city looking for the English explorer in the morning. And with the Browns' help he'll be certain to find his way. What could possibly go wrong, indeed?
      These are some parts of the movie. It satisfy me the most specially the ending of the story.

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