Christmas Carol - 2019 - 7/10

For traditionalists, this may be hard to swallow.
The look and atmosphere of this hews closer to Gustav Doré’s London, rather than John Leech.
Scrooge is hard as flint, but a complete rationalist. His exchanges with Cratchit illuminate both characters.
Cratchit is not the spineless soul, one senses something akin to respect from his employer.
With most Scrooges, there lies a twinkle behind the “humbug!” Not with Pearce.
This is a dead soul, with a traumatized childhood. His home is huge, because he can afford it; it is empty and bleak because he has no spirit to fill it.
Grim (Grimm) business all around. Wonderful adaptation.