Scrooge

[Sempu]

It's that time of year for me to rewatch the 1951 Alistair Sim classic (released as "A Christmas Carol" in the US), and his acting again leaves me speechless. I have trouble imagining a heart so hard that it is not reduced to tears by this story, but I do not want to be around anyone who isn't moved. This is a movie that affects me just as Avatar does - not in the same way, but as greatly or nearly so. I just wish that more people who need to take its message to heart - as so many do, these days - would see it and let it touch them. I know it leaves me praying that I can be better, do better, and focus more on what is really important than the "business" I so often get caught up in. In terms of the power to change a viewer, Sim's is surely the greatest performance in history.