There are several versions of this film. The original is rather long, but well worth the time spent viewing it. The subsequent edited versions -- even the so-called "director's cut" -- omit small but crucial events in Isadora's life, without which it becomes more difficult to understand how Isadora sublimated her angst into her art.
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A Christmas Carol
(1951)
The finest adaptation of Dickens' Christmas masterpiece.
14 June 1999
What can be said of a masterful film adaptation of a literary masterpiece? Perhaps the most touching scene occurs when Scrooge, looking back at the "shadow" of his sister's death and last words -- "Take care of my boy" -- words he had never before known she had uttered -- begs his now-dead sister for forgiveness for his having so resented the son whose birth cost her her own life, just as Ebenezer's mother had given her own life for his.
We consider "Scrooge" to be a Christmas story; but it is that and much more: It is a testament to the human capacity to overcome, to repent, to change, and to be delivered. As Ebenezer said, as he drew nigh unto the vision of his own tombstone, "Surely a man's deeds foreshadow certain ends, but if those deeds be departed from, then surely those ends must change." Amen.
We consider "Scrooge" to be a Christmas story; but it is that and much more: It is a testament to the human capacity to overcome, to repent, to change, and to be delivered. As Ebenezer said, as he drew nigh unto the vision of his own tombstone, "Surely a man's deeds foreshadow certain ends, but if those deeds be departed from, then surely those ends must change." Amen.
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