The plot of "Joulutarina" can be described as simple and bland, lacking violent contradictions, no excessive philosophical teaching-style dialogue, not even negative, no opposition. Like a puff of cooking smoke, it swells slightly, stagnant at the end of the eyes, and seems to contain the audience in front of the screen.
There is no ugliness in the film, not because of the white snow, but because the ugliness never took root. Life is full of overflowing nostalgia, and the tears of flashing memories also reflect the light of kindness.
The inheritance of feelings has a common part. Even as he grows older, Nicholas does not retreat from house to house to send gifts to each child, bringing hope and joy to more and more people. This kind of simple feeling does not have any stagnation between Nicholas and his childhood friends, and his friend's daughter. The continuation and resonance of emotions adds another layer of spreading warmth to the snow-white screen.
The cinematic footage is constantly fixed on Nicholas's carved gifts, not just to highlight how beautiful the gift is, but to tell the audience how happy it is to belong to this emotion. The beautiful and pure picture of the film and the ethereal and distant music melody also make the emotions extremely smooth, swaying into the chest, and can't help but want to give the loved one a warm hug.
Maybe the movie wants to tell the audience that pure feelings are not the perception of life after being tortured, but the talent of human nature. Just as Nicholas did not question the fragility of life, nor did he force himself into the position of the giver. He stubbornly believes that if he persists, his parents who have passed away will come back, and more and more people will create and give. At the end of the film, the fantasy color shows that the legend is only the power to maintain love, and it is the accompaniment that never goes far
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