Review of The Christmas Star (1986) by Private U — 10 Dec 2007

If I used a Derridian play on a phrase, pas de thèse, to describe this movie, it is because this is a Derridian Christmas Star that shines more than any other. There is a logic within the script that can enact certain structures that one finds characteristic of Derrida's work--particularly his work on Hegel. The auto-affection or running in place of the continual repetitiveness in The Christmas Star might be a form of Derridian dialectic. I think at least trying to pair the two in an effort to show why exactly (in a Freudian way, similar to his book on jokes) The Christmas Star is absolutely hilarious can indeed illustrate the general tenor of certain things he gets at.

This all revolves around the simple question of how we could actually get a new Christmas movie each year, given the fact that in each movie, a lot of it of it is watching previous movies!