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A Christmas Carol (2009)
★ 6.9 · 4,886 ratings on TMDB
Christmas comes but once a year, but for one man, that's once too often.
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
DirectorRobert Zemeckis
The emergence reading
A Christmas Carol keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
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