George Orwell made an acute observation of why small children often see adults as intimidating or unsightly:
“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upward, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”
Dreamchild: Alice in Wonderland and Reverend Charles Dodgson.
Dodgson (Ian Holm) suffers from a stifled emotional life. He shows freedom of imagination for the poems that he writes for little girls.
Finding Neverland (2004): Peter Pan and J. M. Barrie
Gigi: Thanks Heaven for Little Girls
Phantom of the Opera
