Kris' cane
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joannabaroncelli — 10 years ago(August 05, 2015 01:26 PM)
POSSIBLE SPOILER
At the end when a cane has been left at the house and we wonder whether Kris
had left it there, he had been locked up for several days (maybe one to two weeks) and when he is released on Christmas Eve he still has his cane with him.
Would he have been able to make it up to the house later that evening and leave his cane there? Or did he have 2 canes and left one of them there earlier?
How did Kris get up there? Did he take a cab? A beautiful story but a number of plot holes here. -
PillowRock — 10 years ago(August 07, 2015 09:51 AM)
The movie very specifically and purposefully avoids ever definitively answering the question of whether or not Kris truly is Santa Claus. Leaving that ambiguity intact is where much of the movie's magic and spirit comes from.
If Kris is truly the one and only Santa, then he doesn't need anything remotely as mundane as a taxi to take him to the house nor a realtor with a key to let him in. (Remember, in this case we are talking about the magical being who can deliver around the entire planet in one night.)
If Kris is really just a kindly old man with a delusion, then we're still left with more "realistic" (if a bit coincidental) explanations along the lines of Doris' "It must have been left by the previous owners." In this case, Kris would have never seen more than a listing / advertisement for house for sale.
There aren't any plot holes here. -
rizdek — 10 years ago(November 22, 2015 04:07 AM)
Agreed. It was there to create a bit of mystique.
There's another Christmas movie that does a similar thingChristmas Comes to Willow Creek. It is a shepherd's staff leaning beside a door like the cane is leaning near the fireplace.