#22- American Girl Reacts to The Ghost of Christmas Past | Bollywood Reactions

0:00 Greeting cards have all been sent.

0:03 The Christmas rush is through, but I still have one wish to

0:10 make a special one for you. Merry Christmas darling.

0:20 We're a part, that's true, but I can dream.

0:26 And in my dreams I'm Christmas scene with you.

0:34 Holidays are joyful. There's always something new,

0:42 but every day is a holiday. When I'm near to you, it's Amy.

0:53 Merry Christmas. A film, a Christmas, not joyful,

1:01 but definitely new. Not light, not bright, pretty

1:05 dark. Have you seen it and what makes

1:08 it so dark? Have you ever asked is there any

1:12 way out, any way back from the dark towards the light?

1:16 Do any of us get reduced, get to try again, or start a new?

1:21 Really, once we make a mistake, let's talk about it.

1:26 Let's talk about Merry Christmas Albert.

1:31 In Merry Christmas, Albert's actions and responses and

1:35 behaviours seem to demonstrate that he wants to be a protector

1:40 for sure. Like we discussed the Salar

1:43 Adava and Om Kapoor, but maybe even more than that, a Raju and

1:49 Ebenezer Scrooge, Kabir Han. He wants a second chance, a

1:57 different ending. He wants redemption, a comeback,

2:02 a different rule. We see this a trauma and guilt

2:10 driven over correction. He seeks out almost the same

2:17 emotional situation as his original crime and then does

2:23 better in an extreme way by sacrificing himself from Maria,

2:30 effectively rewriting the script at his own expense.

2:36 Albert has just been released after serving seven years for

2:41 killing his lover Rosie, a crime framed as a mix of

2:47 possessiveness, rage and failed love.

2:52 When he meets Maria, another woman in danger and in a morally

2:58 Gray situation, he walks straight back into a scenario

3:06 involving intimacy, violence, and a possible murder

3:10 accusation, but this time is determined not to be the one who

3:17 destroys her alive. Where past Albert killed the

3:23 woman he left present, Albert takes the opposite extreme.

3:30 He takes the blame for Jerome's murder, knowing Maria actually

3:34 did it, and chooses to return to prison so she and her daughter

3:39 can walk free. Classic over course correction

3:46 indeed. Swapping from perpetrator to

3:50 self sacrificing rescuer in a very similar emotional setup.

3:58 Psychologically, Albert is still organized around the same core

4:04 drama. A woman, he laughs.

4:08 A violent death, Police suspicion, prison.

4:14 His own belief that he is the one who must pay rather than

4:20 choosing A totally new kind of life.

4:22 He repeats the structure of the old wound but flips rules from

4:28 active killer to willing scapegoat, trauma reenactment

4:35 and a redemption script. A perpetrator seeking a near

4:41 identical scenario to demonstrate to himself into the

4:46 world. I am different now.

4:49 Turning his body into the sight of atonement.

4:52 His sacrifice is both a love gesture and a way to overwrite

4:58 the memory of Rosie with a new ending.

5:02 This time he saves the woman instead of destroying her.

5:10 In this trauma triangle, Albert moves from persecutor, the man

5:17 who wants to killed his lover, to a hyper rescuer who also

5:24 absorbs all the blame and punishment and also carries a

5:29 quiet victim narrative. My fate is always prison and

5:34 loss triangles intact. Only his corner has changed

5:42 because his redemption is so absolute.

5:47 Taking a murder rap for someone else after just one night

5:51 together. It suggests not a balanced

5:55 integrated accountability, but an extreme shame driven swing to

6:01 the opposite pole. He does not seek a modestly

6:06 different life. He seeks the same Crucible,

6:12 accusation, jail, sacrifice with a morally cleaner role.

6:20 Both Albert and Maria are morally compromised and trauma

6:25 marked. He is a confessed killer.

6:29 She is an abused wife who becomes a premeditated killer

6:35 building an elaborate alibi apartment.

6:39 Their connection is less pure romance and more 2 damaged

6:46 people recognizing each other's darkness.

6:51 Against that backdrop, Albert's final choice reads as an

6:57 overcorrection other than simple nobility.

7:02 He cannot undo Rosie's murder, so he accepts an even harsher

7:08 version of the same consequence for someone else's crime,

7:13 rewriting his internal story from I ruined her to I saved

7:21 her, but at the cost of ever truly stepping outside of that

7:29 old narrative frame. I wonder, by participating in or

7:37 rather covering up the murder of an alleged abuser, is he trying

7:42 to kill off or cover up that memory or part of him or history

7:52 as an actual abuser and apparent domestic violence murderer?

7:59 Did she lock out Maria? Because if this wasn't the case

8:05 in a part of his past and his life, his history with the exact

8:10 same individual, Albert handle it all very differently.

8:20 We all believe in protecting innocent, protecting children,

8:26 protecting victims. It's sometimes a thankless job

8:32 and there are many ways to do it.

8:34 Boring, simple, systematic and peaceful ones as well.

8:40 Less interesting to maybe talk about her watching film.

8:46 A worthy endeavor. Not for the weak sometimes.

8:50 But I don't know. I, I, I have some, I have some

8:54 thoughts about the dad not being able to always defend themselves

9:01 without clear evidence too. I mean, it's important for us

9:08 not to become so overzealous in how worthy an endeavor is or how

9:15 we feel about it that we leave room for creating more problems

9:21 or being a part of problems such as false accusations or smear

9:28 campaigns. I actually have so much to say

9:31 on this topic as well as it relates to our characters in

9:36 films. We will explore and discuss that

9:39 soon enough. It is so important.

9:44 Really, I think the fine line between victim blaming and false

9:50 accusations is an important line, one we should mine not to

9:55 forget because any one of us could be a victim at any time

10:02 and one who is blamed or even a victim, yes, of false

10:09 accusations or a smear campaign. But I think it is very, very

10:16 safe to say that as I described the tragedy of Davdess and the

10:24 characters and the outcomes in my online video deep dive series

10:29 in detail here. Merry Christmas as well.

10:36 There are only victims here, even if it did not start that

10:42 way. Victims everywhere you look, one

10:47 way or another. Kind of like the world.

10:51 May we, may we all do better. May we all feel better.

10:59 Be better. Most importantly, whether we got

11:04 it right or wrong in the past, whether we are currently getting

11:10 it right or wrong in the present, most importantly in

11:16 this arena, our world, our lives, may we try like Albert

11:25 here. May we continue to there greatly

11:32 to keep trying to get it right.