Movies you watch on Xmas Day
I used to always watch a movie on Christmas. I couldn't play with my presents because they were always books (YAY) and that was unsocial. And anyway, what are you supposed to do Christmas day, after opening presents and eating cinnamon rolls, I mean? Your whole family is there and you're supposed to be spending time together, but after you eat
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A Christmas Story . . . I found it more intriguing than enjoyable, although obviously the intrigue kept my far on the end from any kind of dislike! I think it's interesting it's such a family Christmas "classic", for one, since it's so negative about so many things. Although there's reaffirmation at the end, it's sort of a short bit.
I was very interested in the POV. I don't like Ralphie, but I'm not sure I'm supposed to. The narrator seems very aware of all the things he does that are--either not nice or dispicable, but the narrator is also very empathetic to him. It's not an old guy regretting his youth, it's an old guy getting caught up in his youth and those feelings all over again. And I think we're supposed to feel the same way, while still being aware that many of the things Ralphie does and feels are ridiculous or even unkind. But in the end I mostly didn't like him, and it made me sort of uncomfortable. I liked the rest of his family a lot more.
I did really love the leg lamp, the Annie decoder ring, and the trip to see Santa. I found the bully plot rather lame. So anyway, I found it sort of fascinating, and something I'd definitely watch again, but not something I necessarily love.
Hee, I bet that was so much more of an explanation than you were expecting!
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