What films mean Christmas to you?
It's come around again incredibly fast, Christmas is here. If you celebrate the consumerised holiday or not, you're still subjected to the same television as the rest of us, and that means the traditional Christmas films.
Usually you're guaranteed to see The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, Miracle on 34th Street, and many more. Yet the films that are always played aren't necessarily the films that really deliver what the holiday is all about.
Christmas means so many different things to different people, religious or not, but this feature is about what it means for you personally and what films reflect those feelings the best.
So if I was to ask myself what films mean Christmas to me, I'd have to go with...
The Great Escape, as it shows every single year and I watch it just about every single year. It's a film I never tire of and it feels like tradition now. Each and everytime, I'm willing him to make that jump.
Scrooged embodies so much of the traditional messages of Christmas but packages them in a superbly funny comedy, a comedy that also touches you, isn't filled with preachings, and has one of the most enjoyable endings to a film ever.
It's a Wonderful Life. Yes it is quite dark to begin with, but there's warmth, love, and bucket loads of reality in there too. Another film that just leaves you feeling wonderful afterwards, if a little emotionally drained.
So those are three of my choices for films that really embody Christmas for me. Now I'm not saying this is how my Christmas' are, it's just that this is either a reflection of a film that's traditionally watched in the Brunton household over Christmas, or films that reflect what I think the period is all about.
Not annoyingly busy shops, streets and buses, but kindness, caring, and generally being good to those close to you, as well as yourself.
So what films mean Christmas to you and why? Family tradition, the feelings you've had of the holiday before, or what you wish it really was like.
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