This scene will forever be the most important scene in any movie to me. Β This is a little girl who has been told all her life by her parents that she is a mistake and that she is worthless. Β This is a little girl whose family life is so horrible that books are her only escape. Β This is a little girl whose parents constantly belittle her for reading, the only pleasure in life she has. Β And in this scene, this little girl answers very shyly, because she has been conditioned to be embarrassed of her own existence. Β At first, she answers slowly, and without making eye contact. And in this scene this little girl is beginning to realize that maybe she is special. Β Maybe there are kind people in the world. Β Maybe she is worth something.
Itβs also when a lot of boys and girls watching got their sexual awakening when Miss Honey lowered her glasses like that.
I just got fucking whiplash and the culprit is injuries-in-dust
Iβm just paraphrasing Mara Wilson herself.
And did this really not do anything to you?
