Get Santa (2014)

Yes, I remember this one. What I hadn’t realized is that it works as a preview of The Christmas Chronicles (2018). The Brits know how to tell a Santa story better than anyone else, really. And, as is the case with most of Europe, Lapland is where Santa’s village is, not the North Pole.

Santa’s ability to remember every letter from every child is displayed with more pathos than I previously recalled. Maybe I’m getting more sentimental in my old age. At any rate, that’s why he picked Steve Anderson to get him out of prison when he gets arrested. Anderson, as we’ve seen in the Matrix movies is the Son of Man. And Steve got a Rubik’s Cube in his childhood, but he keeps trying to solve it, which showed Santa that he follows through and never gives up. Hmm.

The film gives an interesting insight into the British Justice System, and demonstrates that inmates are just regular guys who got caught trying to make ends meet. (That’s just my editorial opinion.)

Anyway, the next time you look up at The Plough (the Big Dipper in North America), just remember that it is the key to opening the portal to Santa’s Village.