The Polar Express Is a Great Movie
All aboard a Christmas masterpiece
It’s a strange feeling knowing you love something that many people dislike immensely. It’s one thing if a film is polarizing, such as the case with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it’s another situation entirely when the movie you love is condemned by the majority of people who have seen it. The Polar Express is a movie little appreciated, and I would argue little understood, by the masses but nonetheless has captured my imagination and fascination since I was young. Even into adulthood I am in awe of a movie so strange and unlike anything I have ever seen.
The film is based on the 1985 book of the same name by author Chris Van Allsburg. The movie follows the journey of an unnamed boy on Christmas Eve who has become quite a skeptic when it comes to the topic of Santa Claus. You can see that the boy wants to believe, but is unable to accept that Santa exists based on all the evidence he has seen in his own experiences. In natural fairytale fashion, the boy is startled awake that evening by a rumbling that fills his whole room. He goes outside to investigate and finds that a train is waiting outside his neighborhood (despite the fact that there are no real tracks located there). The trains conductor comes out to greet the boy and simply asks “Well? Ya coming?” At the peak of his disbelief, a train literally…
