Jesus of Nazareth, Dickens and a Korean filmmaker

Animated film and more than suitable for dates, which oddly enough is Korean and tells the life of Jesus Christalthough in a particular way: Charles Dickens wrote this story for his children in a very simple way (it was not published until sixty years later). … after his death, since he considered it a work “intended for internal consumption”) and didactic. It was directed by Seong-ho Jang, the first one he signed, and it has two interesting features which it includes in the greatest story ever told: that Dickens himself, his wife Catherine and his son Walter enter drawn and ‘guest’ in the events narrated and that the voices which animate the drawings are (in their original version) a chorus of first-rate stars, Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Mark Hamill, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Forés Whitaker, Oscar Isaac…

The effect achieved by the Korean director is funny: Dickens tells the story to his son Walter and his son’s imagination tells it to us; that is to say as if the child’s head gave life to the Gospel chapters. With clear line drawing and naive, poetic text, it reviews the life of Jesus from his birth to his passion, crucifixion and resurrection, although all of this is told with enormous sensitivity for children’s eyes. The boy Walter is very attentive to his father’s story and presents it to us with a great sense of humor, intrigue and dedication, full of characters and a pleasant setting of places and events.

This surprising alliance between Dickens and Korean director Seong-ho Jang is not only good entertainment, but also a great opportunity for Christian families to put before their children’s eyes the accessible and careful story of the life of Jesus among Christmas lights.

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