Thanksgiving repost: Miracle on 34th Street

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   The post should be titled as a Christmas post. Actually, it's not even a Christmas Post, it's more like an "X-mas" post. The first part I watched again, having already seen it before. What it reminded me of is that feeling, even back in the time this movie was made (50's ?), that the holiday of Christmas had lost too much of its religious significance.

   Santa Claus is not necessarily a Christian figure, but Saint Nicholas is, or so I think. So this part about him being the secularized Santa Claus, and that being a regrettable thing, isn't really consistent with the lament about commercialization. Well, it was New York, after all. Some things really don't change, now do they?

   But the spirit of Christmas seems to be there. At least there's that.