marvingray wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:16 am
Although, with her father and her close relationship with her neighbors I could see her having more compassion for the poor than most.
This presents an awfully tolerant view of the lazy drunkard neighbor man, whose son and wife do all the work for him! Allan Edwall is such a wonderful character actor, and makes Herr Nilsson lovable. In real life I would probably want to choke him. And Madicken's newspaper editor father is a high-minded liberal socialist with very definite political views. Of course Madicken does not look at things from a political perspective because she is a child. Her mother also provides a compassionate example. She seems to have come from a privileged background and gave up a career in music to raise a family, but she has a more pragmatic view than her husband on helping the poor. It is just not possible to save the world and she certainly is not a revolutionary. Sometimes the right thing to do is something as simple as delousing a few grubby, neglected poor girls with an absent father. She manages to shame her slightly pompous husband into recognizing the value of kindness on the simple human level rather than on one of broad social change.
Like even in the midst of their feud she still offers Mia a sandwich when she is hungry.
This is one of the reasons I am quite fond of Madicken, who thinks it perfectly reasonable to share food with someone who is without. Although Mia sees it as a gesture by a stuck-up rich girl lording it over her lessers. "Let them eat cake." Mia has a bit of an inferiority complex, and she would rather be hungry and angry than show any weakness by accepting charity. She has her pride.
I applaud the showrunners for not dumbing things down and showing there isn't typically a convenient happy ending or fix to being poverty-stricken.
The credit really belongs to Astrid Lindgren and her ideas. By that point in her career, any moviemakers who were allowed to work with her material were like-minded individuals. Her stories would be adapted her way, or not at all. She was disappointed with some of the earliest filmed stories and quickly insisted that they could only use HER scripts! The producers were not Hollywood egomaniacs, so they saw the wisdom in following the lead of THE GREATEST CHILDREN'S AUTHOR EVER. (imho)
then certain ASMR type youtube videos
You sick freak!
I've watched it enough to notice things like their fluctuating heights(sometimes Madicken is way taller than Lisbet, sometimes they are pretty close in height)
Wow, I am going to have to check that out next time! I have only seen Liv Alsterlund in a few (later) roles outside of Lisabet, and THERE I noticed that she had shot up and was no longer a little tyke. But that's life.
