This is just a germ of an idea I had while watching the original "Miracle on 34th Street" in 2025. The whole movie comes down to if the government can believe in Santa, by way of collecting his mail, then Kris can be identified as the real Santa Claus.
I was thinking in 2025 when we hear so much about accepting someone's identity based on nothing but their feelings, can't this movie be used as promoting that idea?
There are numerous caveats to this idea, and this isn't my interpretation of the film. But after seeing how these weirdos twist everything into their worldview, I can see these freaks using this movie towards their ends.
There is also a bit of an anti-capitailism message in the movie.
I get what you are saying but that is such a good movie with a beautiful ending. Modern day weirdos will twist anything
I think it's a very sweet movie as well.
Modern progressives will twist anything to suit their narrative. The movie is about faith and the value of things beyond the purely material, obviously constructed in a way that children can understand. Interpreted in that manner, it's a great message for the nihilistic world of today.
It's weird my mind first went to the idea of Kris being more messianic than Santa while watching. But for some reason my brain switched to the idea of it being about identity and modern politics
Unfortunately that means modern identity politics has polluted your brain, as it has mine too. A little dose of innocence is just what we need I think, especially at this time of year.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1994492569368363473 <- Chevy commercial that is a little dose of innocence.
If you look deep enough a LOT of the nineties "Christmas" movies are extremely subversive.
this is a 40s or 50s movie
I did not know that, I seem to have only seen a remake then.
Check it out. There's a colored release too.
You mean release-of-color, bigot.
Things were subversive even then. Here's Disney in 1943: https://youtu.be/xWvXpnt-Fq0?t=33
And a very unsubtle endorsement of miscegenation in 1935. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBnoEUYKl4
Damn...
There is a time for cutting people some slack. Communities of people are not meant to be rigidly bureaucratic structures where everything is a binding extrapolable precedent, or philosophically ultra pure a la libertarians.
There's a great commercial from Spanish TV about a grandma who scratches off a winning lottery ticket, except it's from last year's lottery and she's the only one who doesn't know. The whole town comes together to "celebrate" her win because they don't want to break the news to her. Even her surly grandson gets involved. It's a beautiful picture of a homogenous community where people know and care for each other.