🎅 Merry Christmas 🎄 "MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" (1994, USA)

Mercredi 24 décembre 2025: 

 I watched the following movie in the living room at night.

 It was recorded on an external HDD connected to a SHARP AQUOS. It aired on TV Tokyo on August 25, 2024, from 2:45 a.m.

 SATURDAY CINEMA "MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" (1994, USA, dubbed in Japanese).

 I'm sure I'd seen this movie on TV a long time ago, but I had completely forgotten the story, the plot, the faces of all the cast members, and even the title, so it was like watching it for the first time.

 This movie is the kind of entertainment we show children on Christmas Day. I think I also watched it as an entertaining Christmas movie back in the day.

 However, watching it now as an older person, my perspective changes a little.

 Santa Claus, a symbol of dreams, hope, peace, and prosperity, is having a fun time with a child. Then the "adult world" intrudes. This "adult world" is a world of filthy desires: money, ambition, power, status, jealousy, conspiracy, and words and actions that unfairly (sexually) degrade people. A world of hope for the future must be protected from this evil world through "justice, fairness, and democracy."

 Furthermore, the story also involves the unique issue of "American Justice" (judicial democracy, democratic justice). (From a Japanese perspective, this is interesting, as these procedures and situations would not exist in the Japanese judicial system.)

 

 These issues are portrayed humorously, resulting in a film that can be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of age or religion.

 In the end, "justice, fairness, and democracy" triumphs. However, once the game is decided, without lingering hardship, the two sides demonstrate sportsmanship and return (move forward) together to the American world of shared values, ideals, practices, and dreams. 

 This is perhaps the ideal of the American world.

 This film can be said to embody such American ideals in a Christmas dream.

 Asia is a world of "resentment." Asian countries have to found and support their people and nations based on the modern "myth" of "resentment." This makes it difficult for us to engage with "Asia."

 The "Asia" we live in is such a distorted world, and watching this film made me feel envious. 

 "Asia" faces in the opposite direction to America.