Rachael

Excellent and exciting Christmas movie! It has a wonderful and humorous storyline with multi dimensional characters. However, I am blown away by other reviewers Bible thumping reactions to it. This film was not in any way anti-Christ. It’s a traditional cookie cutter Christmas movie that focuses on familial bonds and Christmas spirit. I highly recommend you “Christian” crybabies try, for once, cracking that Bible open and actually reading it before you go thumping it “in the name of Jesus” on the internet. Nowhere does it say Christmas was Jesus’s birthday. If you bothered to read a history book you would also be educated on the FACT that Christmas is actually the celebration of the pagan holiday Saturnalia, tree and all, to ensure the fruitfulness of crops in the coming season. Additionally, Santa is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER created by American capitalists and as such can totally be any color you want him to be. Even purple. Personally, I LOVE seeing black Santa represented in media and toys. It makes my heart brim with joy and inclusion.

This film was stunningly beautiful visually and very reminiscent of Dogville with the plot literally being a play within a play. I thought the storyline had an especially deep undercurrent and that the truth of the message of this film came out when Jason Schwartzman went backstage to speak to the director, played by Adrien Brody. Schwartzman expressed concerns feeling lost with the direction of his character… To me it felt like how we all feel as humans at times, asking someone, or something (ie God, what have you) to tell us what the point is and where we should go or what we should do in our lives. Brody’s response was perfection and lent meaning to all the other subplots and characters in the story.