Santa Inc. Review: Exploring the Bureaucracy of the Imaginary

There is something inherently appealing in subjecting silly and imaginative ideas to real-world logistics. Films and television have been turning childlike concepts into fleshed-out worlds, with their own politics and bureaucracies, for quite some time, at least since 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan. The world of Santa in The Santa Claus, the late-night work of a tooth fairy in The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny in Hop, and many other movies have all featured imaginary figures dealing with real, mundane life. These movies take the magical and subject it to the monotonous-- Santa needs to go on a diet and find a replacement, or the successor to the Easter Bunny wants to be a drummer in Hollywood. Perhaps in humanizing the imaginary, audiences come a tad closer to understanding themselves and why these myths exist in the first place.



from MovieWeb - Movie Reviews | RSS Feed https://ift.tt/3IoR3uJ

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Some Natural Remedies for Glowing Skin