Oh yeah, what's going on there? (I don't really have any memory of the movie or Mathilda)
Matilda can move things with her mind - also, she loves to read.
Matilda's father, Harry Wormwood (Danny Devito is so great here): "What is this trash you're reading?"
Matilda: "It's not trash, Daaddy, it's lovely. It's called
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville."
Harry Wormwood: "Moby *what*?"
[snatching the book from Matilda and tears the pages out of the cover] Harry Wormwood: "This is Filth! Trash...!"
Matilda: "It's not mine! It's a library book!"
Harry Wormwood: "I'm fed up with all this reading! You're a Wormwood, you start acting like one! Now sit up and look at the TV."