One of the best films - for children, for adults - ever made.
It never panders, it can be quite dark.
The wonderful performance of Gene Wilder can boarder, at times, on madness, cruelty, but - even when I was little, I loved this, and, I understood.
'Remember what happens to the man who got everything he wanted? He lived happily eve after...'
It's one of the last lines in the film, and while it's spoken to Charlie, it's really about Wonka himself.
He found someone - someone he could trust with his secrets. And, Charlie learned that, being honest does pay off.
Another line from the film; ''So shines a good deed in a weary world,' which while, originally from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, still resounds with much meaning.
There are some 'perennials,' in the film, and, this one shines as one that every child, can love, and, grow up, to share with theirs.
score /10
UNOhwen 22 October 2011
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