Words you never thought you’d read in a national review for a family holiday movie (in this case, The Polar Express):
Tots surely won’t recognize that Santa’s big entrance in front of the throngs of frenzied elves and awe-struck children directly evokes, however unconsciously, one of Hitler’s Nuremberg rally entrances in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will. But their parents may marvel that when Santa’s big red sack of toys is hoisted from factory floor to sleigh it resembles nothing so much as an airborne scrotum.
Must scrub brain…
» “Do You Hear Sleigh Bells? Nah, Just Tom Hanks and Some Train,” New York Times, 10 Nov. 2004 (via Naked Came I).
» Speaking of which, “The Uncanny Valley, or why Polar Express is so creepy” (via kottke.org).