Santa Claus (1959)
3/10
Pure pain and yet, I love it!
17 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This is a movie made by maniacs who have nothing less than the goal of decimating your sanity. View this movie at your own peril.

This movie has so many insane ideas, it's difficult to summarize them. From learning that demons primarily eat hot coals to the fact that every child that works for Santa must wear a racist costume that denotes their country of origin (all Japanese children wear kimonos, all Americans are cowboys), this is a movie brimming with barely concealed menace.

But here's what's really weird - even though Santa has made all of his children codified by country, none of them know anything about he countries they come from. What is happening?

This is a movie that explains how Santa can be everywhere at once: he is from the Fifth Dimension and as we all know from reading Grant Morrison comics, that is the dimension of imagiantion. Therefore, as a Fifth Dimension being, Santa is able to transcend the reality of our dimension and do things that would break our minds were we to contemplate them too long - just like I am doing when I write this. I am putting your brain in danger right now by forcing you to reason with the fact that the physical properties that ground us in the Third Dimension can be pushed beyond the infinte. Merry Christmas.

Santa Claus can also feel physical pain when his mechanical manifestations are hit with rocks. This makes even less sense. Why, in a world where Lucifer constantly is trying to murder him, would Santa put himself in such mortal peril?

This is a movie that raises more questions than it does answers. You ask, "Where does Santa come from," knowing that he comes from the North Pole and are shocked to learn that everything you know - including the very way our universe and its laws are governed - is a lie. This is a movie made to keep children occupied, whether on TV or in the movie houses where it ranyearly for three decades, while parents try to get a merciful break. But a central point of the film is for parents to stop ignoring their children, so any child ignored in such a way will have to feel lost in the maelstrom of emotional pain that this movie wields like a scapel.
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