hadn’t expected Paddington to bring me to tears.
But it did, early in the film, during a perfectly understated but iconic moment from the children’s books, written by Michael Bond, on which the movie is based. In the scene, on a train platform, Paddington (who’s yet to be given that name) has made his way to London as a stowaway on a cargo ship — he was sent there by his aunt, who’s headed to the Home for Retired Bears and can no longer take care of him.
