![]() Some educational value includes children learning about what a “clause” is and what it means to abide by a contract once agreeing to it. Charlie is a positive role model because although Scott Calvin doesn’t believe in the experience they had on Christmas Eve, Charlie believed in it all the way through. This goes back to the message that believing is seeing, not seeing is believing. His wife and her new husband are no help because his wife just goes along with her new husband, who is a psychiatrist and says that there is no such thing as Santa Claus because is isn’t logical. He ends up becoming the new Santa Claus and sees that Charlie may be a kid, but he was right and he was telling the truth. But what ultimately makes Scott believe that he is actually Santa is that he develops symptoms like Santa, like gaining fat and growing facial hair quickly. Meanwhile, Charlie is the kid who knows it all happened but Scott denies him and says that Santa is a fake. Evidence is gathered throughout this film about how the character Scott Calvin really is the new Santa Claus, even though Scott Calvin himself thinks for most of the film that all that happened the night of Christmas Eve was just a crazy dream. Adults tend to believe that when a kid tells them something that seems to be unrealistic, they immediately dismiss them and say that they’re wrong and they should drop the subject…when really the kid may be right. This movie also teaches adults not to doubt kids when they believe in something with all their heart. There are some great messages, like believing is seeing, as oppose to seeing is believing. This is a good movie for Christmas, and it is very creative in how it was executed.
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