Daily delight: White Christmas

[stgulik]

Not here--we don't get snow in Central California. I mean the movie. My daily delight was, I yelled at one of my least-favorite films.



This is kind of a holiday tradition, in the spirit of my larger sense of ambiguity over the entire Christmas season.

It's one of those movies I love to hate, I guess. In case you happen to like it, I won't list the reasons I do not, because they will only bring you down. Suffice to say, it is a lengthy list.

I only agree to watch with my husband (who loves it) on the firm understanding that at the part where Betty hears a rumor that Bob is going to go behind the back of his beloved general and make a big TV show that exploits the poor man's hardships, my husband will indulge me as I yell at the television screen.

"Jesus Christ, Betty! Tell Bob why you're mad at him! Don't just run off to New York, you passive-aggressive chowderhead!"

Nobody should watch "White Christmas" with me. Too noisy.

Comments

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

PROMISE me that if you ever see it, you tell me what you thought of it!

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

It's not likely that I'll ever see it, since I'm not into Christmas. I've heard the song, of course, and it always makes me wonder: wHY are people so into snow on Christmas Day? A major day for driving to relative's houses -- which is sometimes done grudgingly, anyway -- and they want driving in hazardous conditions on top of that? Some people just must be stress junkies....

[iqeret.livejournal.com]

As I recall, he wrote the song as someone living in LA wishing for the nostalgic Christmases of his childhood in northern climes. But the pov in the movie is of soldiers who are at the front and dreaming of home.