
A rich unemployed man wakes up on Christmas morning to discover a miracle has occurred.
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”
Black Christmas movies are few and far in between to find — so it is wonderful to see more representation on the screen just in time
Ester Shapiro who flees the only home she has ever known to start a new life in Berlin.
What makes the lighting in Casablanca even more impressive is how it reflects the emotional states of the characters without needing explicit dialogue.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.