Now, the gentleman who suggested this, the very kind and loyal listener who pitched this movie for us as the superdelegate pick,

pointed out that this is an example of, you know, the kind of movie where the capitalist is reformed at the end and he becomes a better capitalist.

He learns human-centric capitalism.

I would say that this is a criticism that if you were to criticize this movie for that,

you should also criticize Charles Dickens for it. He was the, you got to go back all the way to him

because he was the one who came up with this idea. Well, I don't know. I'm going to push back a

little bit on that because I do think, you know, this whole film, you know, it's about, it's about TV and, you know, TV culture.

That's true. And it's also about like a certain 1980s Donald Trump style New York yuppie culture, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. And like Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't formed by those things. Like, he

wasn't formed by TV, but that's what, you know, it's happen with the Bill Murray character. So, like, the Bill Murray character was, like, abused by TV and, like, you know, he absorbed it all when he was growing up. And then, you know,

he became a very kind of bitter, cynical TV executive who's just kind of rolling out, you know,

bitter, cynical schlock. And, and, like, he's got no time for, you know, family. He just like works all the time. He's got no

Christmas spirit, et cetera. And at the end, in a scene that is like genuinely charming, he

rediscovers it. And importantly, he rediscovers it live on air. And then he gives a monologue about how like,

I feel great. You got to chase this feeling. You got to find, you know? Why are y'all watching TV on Christmas, you know? I don't know, there's a little like, I guess, the thing at the end of Ready Player

1 where it's like, well, we still played video games, but now like the nerds were in charge

of the nerd house or whatever. And once a week, you know, we shut it off so we could enjoy,

you know, everyone could have just enjoyed joy their lives before, you know, everyone could have just enjoyed, like, joy their lives before, you know, going back into the Matrix or whatever.

Uh, this is kind of like that.

And, you know, um, insofar as like a political reading of the movie goes, I mean, uh,

the, the kind fellow who originally, uh, nominated this one, I mean, he's, uh, he's unpacked.

Like, what if a TV executive who was formed by TV and, you know, was a cynical kind of purveyor and producer of cynical mass culture?

What if he discovered a little heart? And what if, you know, what if he screamed from the rooftops, this revelation to everybody?

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