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.
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...