A Christmas Carol | Understanding Scrooge, humanity, and Christmas

The BBC 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is, in my opinion, the best thing the BBC have put out in the long time. I still stand by that and cannot reccommend the three part show enough. Steven Knight may be known for Peaky Blinders, but this is a wonderful, emotional, heartening story with weight beyond the usual A Christmas Carol adaptations. The darkness of this version makes the questions of humanity so much bigger and then, ultimately, the hopeful resolution so, so much more uplifting.
I love it, it renewed my own love for Christmas for the simple fact it made me realise, in a way I never knew, exactly what Christmas is really about.

My Little Thought Tree is my channel for drawing out the deeper meaning and emotion in film, TV, and the world at large through relaxed, analytical video essays. I am a professional counsellor and often draw on my psychology and therapy background to better understand characters, themes, and emotion in fiction. I upload every Saturday and occasionally on Tuesdays, if I'm feeling productive.

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Music:
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Myuu - Disintergrating (music box version)
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Dustin O'Halloran - Scrooge
Dustin O'Halloran - Mary Drawing
Dustin O'Halloran - The Spirit Of Christmas

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