Marginalia, Entry 8

[goatgodschild]

My all-time favorite Christmas movie is actually Santa Claus (1959). It works in this wonderfully magical, straight-faced way, where you don't feel talked down to at all. It is a world that works on its own logic, where Santa and Merlin and Hephaestus all work together for the good of mankind. I also appreciate that the Devil appears not in temptations of vague power, but in the small, painful moments that wear you away inside.