A tutorial on The Grinch

Alex is doing a series of Christmas movie tributes, and here’s her marvelous one on The Grinch. The woman is encyclopedic in her knowledge but then we also have brief paragraphs like this:

I loved transformation movies. Movies where the central character not only learns something about themselves, but that certain something literally catapults them into a different place. They are clearer, wiser, or more spiritually agile. This is true in Grinch. It’s simple, funny, silly, and full of the true spirit of the Holidays. The fact that nothing, no matter how devious or well planned could stop good cheer and selflessness from coming, is gargantuan. It’s not about giving, it’s not about receiving, it’s simply about accepting. Accepting what’s in all of us. Not that we have to search it out, but that no matter what we do, or what anyone else does, that part of who we are is always tangible. It’s up to us as individuals to seek it out, and use it.

Go read the whole post.