Bored_Dragon Review of Hogfather

Hogfather (2006 TV Movie)

"Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom?"

[7/10 · 9 February 2019]

Death: HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN, TO BE THE PLACE WHERE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. Susan: Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little... Death: YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. Susan: So we can believe the big ones? Death: YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. Susan: They're not the same at all! Death: YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET - Death waved a hand - AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME ... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. Susan: Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point... Death: MY POINT EXACTLY.

7/10 [10/10 for the book]