Netflix: Why ‘Matilda’ has powers and how did she discover them?

It’s no secret that the story created by Roald Dahl in 1988’Matilda’ is one of the most famous in the entertainment industry, because it has been adapted for a play, a film and the world of streaming, a plot that has generated doubts in a large part of the public, since many wonder which is the origin of the little girl’s powers that these adaptations focus on.

Recently, Netflix released their version of this story, we mean’Matilda: The Musical’, and like the tape released in 1996 produced by Tristar Picture, it shows a plot centered on a little girl who doesn’t seem to fit into her family, because she likes to read books, moreover she studies in a school dominated by a strict headmistress, which changes when little ‘Matilda’ discovers her powers.

The girl this story focuses on has some sort of telekinesis powers, such as it is able to move objects with the mindwhich he discovers in a very amusing way, both in the 1996 version and in the Netflix adaptation, since in both cases we see how, while the director Tronchatoro harasses the little students, Matilda, after getting angry, throws a glass of water with her mind water where there is a small lizard, which falls into the body of the head of this school.

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Naturally, both films present this scene differently, since the 1996 American version is in Matilda’s classroom, a place that has all the style of American schools, while in the Netflix version, this takes place in the school courtyard , a building that has all the style of the old schools of England.

On the other hand, the origin of powers ‘Matilda’ isn’t revealed in either of these film versions, however, it’s in the original book created by Roald Dahl, this little girl’s teacher, Miss Honey, is the one to speculate on an explanation as to why this little girl has these telekinesis powers.

Roal Dahl explains the powers of “Matilda”.

in success children’s book published in 1988we can see a chapter in which Miss Honey hypothesizes that Matilda developed these telekinetic powers because she is too intelligent a girl to be in first grade, so her brain needed some kind of exhaust valve, thus generating the aforementioned ability to move objects with the mind.

What is a fact is that ‘Matilda’ It’s one of the funniest stories. that have been spawned in recent decades, and each of these adaptations has a special touch, since we must not forget that the American version of the 90s does not have the dances and music offered by the Netflix title, however it is still very entertaining .