Maybe it’s just the random sampling I’ve happened to select this week, but as a genre, Christmas movies do not seem to make a strong argument for spending time with family.
“Therapy is for people who want to be in each other’s lives. We don’t have that problem.”
—Fred Claus (2007)
Sometimes you can find moments of truth that speak to you deeply even in the worst movies.
Fred Claus is an exceptionally bad movie, but I found this bitterly delivered speech from it kind of fascinating:
“Have you ever seen a tree that grows in the shadow of another tree? It’s all puny and misshapen ’cause it’s just bendin’ and twistin’, trying so desperately to get some sunlight. If somebody just cut off a few feet of that big tree, that little tree could have grown up strong. But no, that’s not the way life works, right? I mean, they all love that big tree, right? They’re all proud of that one. They hate the crap out of the little one next to it -the little tree that refuses to grow right. And you know what, ’til somebody comes along and cuts down that big tree, that little tree is never gonna get any light.
Any light.”
In case you were wondering, yes, you can play Diablo at the same time as watching bad Christmas movies.