One of the tapes Family Video gets in for Christmas is the 1959 Mexican movie 'Santa Claus', a/k/a 'Santa Claus vs. The Devil', a/k/a 'That one really weird Mexican Santa Claus movie badly dubbed into English by K. Gordon Murray that MST3K made fun of in 1993.' Eddie rents it and he and Steve watch it at Steve's house for a laugh. It is just as strange as promised.
"Here, in truth, is a poor little rich boy. He has all the toys a little boy could wish for, yet, he is sad and lonely. Lonely for his parents. In spite of all he has, he lacks the most important thing in life: the company of his mother and father."
Steve is expecting the movie to be a stupid, if seasonally appropriate, waste of time (it's about Santa Claus fighting the Devil - his hopes are extremely low). He's not expecting the subplot about the little rich boy left alone in his enormous empty house on Christmas Eve while his parents go out to a restaurant by themselves to hit so goddamn close to home.
Because the parents of the little boy in the movie eventually realized they were hurting their son and came home to spend time with him. That never happened to Steve.
(And now Steve has to explain to Eddie why the dumb Mexican Santa Claus movie is making him misty-eyed.)
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Steve/Eddie - Christmas Movie Hits Too Close to Home for Steve
Date: 2022-12-09 05:07 am (UTC)"Here, in truth, is a poor little rich boy. He has all the toys a little boy could wish for, yet, he is sad and lonely. Lonely for his parents. In spite of all he has, he lacks the most important thing in life: the company of his mother and father."
Steve is expecting the movie to be a stupid, if seasonally appropriate, waste of time (it's about Santa Claus fighting the Devil - his hopes are extremely low). He's not expecting the subplot about the little rich boy left alone in his enormous empty house on Christmas Eve while his parents go out to a restaurant by themselves to hit so goddamn close to home.
Because the parents of the little boy in the movie eventually realized they were hurting their son and came home to spend time with him. That never happened to Steve.
(And now Steve has to explain to Eddie why the dumb Mexican Santa Claus movie is making him misty-eyed.)