Christmas movies - an integral part of the holiday

Christmas is celebrated around the world in a circlefamilies. This is the most joyful holiday in the year, symbolizing the coming to the world of good and justice, uniting the family and inspiring a special festive spirit in the souls of people. Everyone is smiling and giving presents. Strangers congratulate each other on the streets, and the heads of state congratulate the peoples of their countries from the TV screens!

During the winter holidays, all televisionchannels tend to show films in which the plot, in one way or another, relates to Christmas or New Year. Christmas movies differ from all the others in that the action in them is built according to the traditional scheme inherited from the literary genre - the Christmas story. The space in the film, like in the story, has three levels: heaven - earth - hell, and the hero during the story, passing these stages of the universe, miraculously changes.

Christmas movies always have traditionallyjoyful and happy ending. Goodness always triumphs in him, and the dark forces are vanquished. Although at the beginning of the picture the protagonist can not get out of the spiritual or material crisis, and often both at once. To overcome them, you need a miracle. It is realized not only at the expense of the help of higher forces, there can be just a happy coincidence or a lucky chance, but with a hint of a sign from above.

Christmas movies, whose list todayIt has hundreds of titles, and is supplemented every year with new films. I would like to highlight some of those whose demonstration continues to please us for many years.

The film "Fanny och Alexander" / "Fanny and Alexander"enters the Christmas movies since 1982. The picture of the ingenious Ingmar Bergman begins with the celebration of Christmas in the large and elegant theater house of the family Ecdal.

The director tells the story, seen through the eyes of his brother's ten-year-old brother and his sister Fanny.

After the death of their father, the director of the theater, his mothersecond marriage, but already for the pastor. Children are taken away from the friendly, boisterous eccentric Ekdal family, members of which, perhaps, were not the most righteous people, but they were sincerely attached to each other, able to love and protect their loved ones.

While in the new family, it would seem, all adhered to the laws of the Word of God.

But life, subordinated to the harsh and inhumanrules, proved unbearable for overly sensitive and emotional children. But, according to the laws of the church, the pastor can not let go of his wife or children, especially since Alexander's mother and Fanny already waited for the child from him.

The children are saved by the plan of abduction, brilliantly developed by their relatives and friends of the family. Their mother miraculously avoids death on fire, and the family reunites.

American Christmas movies include a tapeThe Family Man / 2000. It is created according to all the rules of Christmas history. Only the crisis is hidden deep in the soul of the hero, Jack Campbell. Sticking to the plot was an accidental conflict in the supermarket, during which Jack, pleased with his fate and career broker, admitted that he had received everything he wanted from life. And immediately, literally the next morning, he finds himself not in his chic bachelor house, but in the arms of Kate, his ex-girlfriend, whom he parted with in the interests of his career a few years ago. But in this new reality, Jack is Kate's husband, they have two children, and he works in the store as a seller of car tires.

At first Jack is terrified of such changes, butgradually understands that it was the family, a sincere relationship with a loved one, and he did not have enough. Elements of magic in this Christmas lyrical comedy are very organic and do not make the story told in the film less real. They are, rather, bright festive accents, giving reality a charm.