So, not everything I am doing for Kagemas is a review. Normally I wouldn’t start the proceedings too early, but I think this is too intriguing a perspective to wait til December to post, so you get an early Kagemas present.

If you pay enough attention to my site, you know I love Halloween. One of my favorite things, post Halloween,though is being a Scrooge and hating on Mariah Carey.

You know I love AChristmas Carol but never liked the ending. Scrooge should have stuck to his guns, because he was the hero and right.

Let’s look at three core reasons Scrooge was the hero.

1. Scrooge gave excellent housing to all. It’s the 1800’s, there is no electricity until the late half of the century and indoor plumbing wouldn’t exist until 1912. What people got was better digs than a house only a century earlier. Back then, the tenant was expected to do a majority upkeep, almost like owning your own house. Greedy Miser?

2. Scrooge employed Bob Crachit. A guy that would of been the lowest in terms of socioeconómics, thanks to Tiny Tim, making him to seem impotent. Scrooge bucks the trends. Miser indeed/sarcasm

3. He uses coal to warm his business. It’s 1800. This was relatively unheard of. Most still used wood stoves. One peice of coal would have warmed the whole place up. Better than a wood stove. This is the time of the industrial revolution for Christ sakes, everything was about to run on coal. You tell me if that’s the hallmark of an a miser.

Scrooge’s only crime was he wasn’t an idle poor.

Now that we got that out of the way, let’s look at Schindler’s List. A modern retelling of A Christmas Carol and infinitely superior to the novel.

Oscar Schindler is a Nazi party member and excellent capitalist. He is anti Jew and clearly didn’t mind showing it. Now, the Nazi were socialist, but I would reckon that his reason for being in favor of socialism is that he doesn’t have to spend his own money to keep, by his own admission, slave labor healthy. He fuckin worse than Scrooge ever was and not just because he’s a Nazi. Cratchit at least seems like he has choice.

Through out the movie and novel, Oscar eventually learns what a dull prick he is, without ghosts, but the movie is helped by a dead girl colorized red, representing the spirit of Christmas and innocence lost. He starts giving, painfully to save as many Jews as he can. At the end, the war is over, Germany surrendered and Schindler lamented on how many more lives he could have saved. He became a good guy and had REAL character arch, not some phony bullshit because the shitty poors of Victorian era England don’t like that you aren’t a spend thrift. Big fuckin deal!

So it is, in my opinion, Schindler’s List is not just a retelling of a classic, but a story that actually happened and has had real world consequences on the millions of generations that will exist because of him. So I say, godbless it!

Give it a watch this Christmas with this fresh perspective.