For many families, it’s a familiar scene: heads bent over glowing screens, conversations half-heard and the outside world slowly slipping into the background. <\/p>\n
That sense of disconnection sits at the heart of a new adaptation of Enid Blyton’s beloved The Magic Faraway Tree. <\/p>\n
The film tells the story of a family who move from the city to the countryside, where the children discover a magical tree filled with strange characters and ever-changing worlds. <\/p>\n
For its stars, the adaptation is as much about timeless storytelling as it is about modern themes.<\/p>\n
Andrew Garfield, who plays the children’s dad, tells the BBC at the film’s premiere that the story’s appeal lies in its sense of wonder. <\/p>\n
“It’s been adapted for modern families, so hopefully it deals with the genuine problems of what it’s like to be a modern parent and a modern kid through a goofy and silly lens.” <\/p>\n
The 42-year-old Spiderman actor adds that he’s very worried about the impact that social media has on young people. <\/p>\n
“The more we live through this technological revolution, the more we understand that our consciousness is being hijacked.<\/p>\n
“Our attention, a valuable commodity, is being commodified and is being used and abused by tech companies.”<\/p>\n
He explains that he feels “very strongly” about the issue and says we need to put in “the hard work of divesting our attention and reconnecting with eternal things like nature”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many families, it’s a familiar scene: heads bent over glowing screens, conversations half-heard and the outside world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-490360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}