Shouldn't the mother have tooken out the guy who killed her husband? Screw helping him out and giving another chance, if he was willing to rob a bank and shoot someone like that he will do it for real in the future. She should have whacked the *beep* out.
shareThen she would have been a nut job. Recall she mailed Abbie's letter and things were as they were before Gideon worked his Christmas magic. She pays $50 for that old camp stove *before* he robs the bank and kills anyone. Therefore saving the death and pain in many lives. And she got to feel good about helping out that nearly desperate man.
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Gabby
That is true and that is what I thought as well plus the first poster should be aware this was some sort of a dream to make her get back her Christmas spirit. The man didn't really kill her husband or kidnap her kids. Things that happen in the mind or a dream don't necessarily mean they would in real life but her getting the Christmas spirit back helped this man who was feeling desperate at this time of yr. The man in the dream or whatever that was really was not a bad man for he told the kids he would not hurt them that he didn't want to hurt anyone and he has his own child and just wanted so much to buy him something for Xmas.
shareHarry didn't mean to kill anyone, you can see as much in his face after Jack gets shot, and he says as much to Abbie and Cal when they're all in the getaway car. As for robbing the bank, many a good person has done bad things when they're desperate. Harry could barely afford to feed his child, he tried selling everything he had before resorting to desperate measures. I'm not condoning his actions, but I do feel compassion for him.
The mirror... it's broken.
Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.
I think it was supposed to be an unintentional shooting and that's why he looked surprised. They just should have just emphasized it more.
Bruce Lee was real. Batman was never real.
It wasn't a dream. It was like Gideon told Abby in her room on the night before Christmas Eve, that 'no matter what happens in the next 24 hours, it's all going to be okay.' Because the ice covering Ginny's heart was melted by the pain of losing her husband and children and by finding her letter to Santa, she finally mailed Abby's letter and NEGATED the previous 24 hours, getting a chance to do it over again but this time with the Christmas spirit in her heart. So yeah...it wasn't a dream. lol
sharePlus let's not forget the dude's poor son. In the thankfully BS (but also COMPLETELY unnecessary) scenario, the kid loses his dad for Christmas. Not just her kids. The poor bastard only robbed a bank out of desperation, he snapped because he was poor as hell and wanted to give his kid SOME kind of Christmas. He said as much to the gas station guy he was trying to sell the car to. He wasn't a bad man. He just broke.
shareYeah, that part surprised me too. Like he shot her husband down in cold blood. I think they should have made it like an accident, then her forgiving him would make more sense.
Bruce Lee was real. Batman was never real.
I don't care if it was even an unintentional shooting. I would never feel sympathy for a man holding up a bank and threatening people with a loaded gun. I can just imagine him saying "I didn't mean to kill him, I just had a loaded gun pointed directly at him while robbing a bank with my finger on the trigger and I accidentally squeezed the trigger!" He doesn't get one bit of sympathy from me after those actions.
shareAgree. She should have done something to prevent him from causing more harm.
shareShe did. When time rewound itself, she came across the same guy near the bank (on the same day being done over again), trying desperately to sell his camp cooker or grill, or whatever so he could have money to feed his family for Christmas. So she bought it, (despite not needing it), so he would have no reason to go into the bank and shoot her husband.
shareYour crazy man!
We're talking about reality here!!
Never in a million years... + the angel AND santa clause saved the whole family! :) :) :)
She didn't have to. Remember, when she put the letter from her kids to Santa in the mailbox, time was magically rewound to the night before Christmas Eve, and her husband was still alive. She remembered what happened and used her knowledge of that day to not only keep him alive, but to prevent the other guy from robbing the bank and going to celebrate Christmas with her family the right way.
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