Thanks to QL, TA enterprise and my uncle. I actually get to watch A Christmas Carol a Saturday before it premier in Malaysia.
Warning: might contain spoiler if you had not watch the movie
The story is about Ebenezer Scrooge (staring the most anticipating Jim Carrey), a cold-hearted, tight fisted, greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. This bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that embodies the joys and spirit of Christmas in contempt, refusing to visit his cheerful nephew Fred's Christmas dinner party with his family, and forcing his underpaid employee Bob Cratchit to beg to take the day off for his own family.
On Christmas eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years prior on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own greedy ways. Marley warns Scrooge that he will suffer an even worse fate if he doesn't repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three spirits that will help guide him.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows Scrooge visions of his own past that take place on or around the Christmas season, reminding him of how he ended up the greedy man he is now.
The Ghost of Christmas Past first showed Scrooge:-
>His old boarding school where he was neglected and deserted by family and friends over the holidays at boarding school
>His beloved, younger sister Fan, who died prematurely after giving birth to his nephew Fred, picked him up from there after repeatedly asking their father if he could come back home.
>His time as an apprentice to Mr. Fezziwig
>He began a successful career in business and moneylending. He became engaged to a woman named Belle, though she later called off the engagement when he began to grow obsessed with accumulating his own wealth.
>The ghost also showed him how Belle married and found true happiness with another man.
Unable to bear having to witness these events again, Scrooge, out of anger, extinguished the Ghost of Christmas Past with his cap and found himself back in his bedroom.
The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the happiness of his fellow men on Christmas day.
>His nephew Fred, who playfully makes jokes with his family at Scrooge's expense,
>Bob Cratchit and his family, who are just barely able to make do with what little pay Scrooge gives Cratchit. The Cratchits also tend to a sickly young son, Tiny Tim, whose commitment to the spirit of Christmas touches Scrooge.Scrooge asks if Tim will die. The Ghost first states that "If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die" (i.e., Tim's illness is not inherently fatal, but the Cratchits lack the funds for Tim to receive proper treatment; - courtesy of Scrooge's miserliness "had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
>Two emaciated children, clinging to his robes, and names the boy as Ignorance and the girl as Want showing them as terrifying, uncivilized children doomed to grow into savage, despicable individuals. The spirit warns Scrooge, "Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
The third and final spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the final consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died, leaving the Cratchits to mourn him on Christmas. Scrooge has also died, though there is more comfort than grief in the wake of his funeral. In addition, Fred finds benefit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Unwilling to let this grim future come to pass, Scrooge begs to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave leading all the way to Hell.
Will Scrooge awakens from being haunted by the three ghost? Will he turned into a new leaf?? Will Tiny Time die?? Spend some money to the cinema to watch it yourself.
it's a nice nice movie worth to watch and the meaning behind you should really take your time to understand it.
it's a meaningful movie which i think i had watched last week.
