"In our world, Santa relies on elves to determine whether children are good or bad. In the world of She's Making a List, Santa has outsourced the naughty or nice lists to the Naughty or Nice Group, which relies on an algorithm to determine the inherent goodness and badness of children. Before we talk about the movie, I need to ask, what do you make of Santa's strategy?"
"I spent the film's remaining runtime grappling with the theological implications of this. In the She's Making a List universe, Santa predates Jesus. I could grapple with this for days, months, years. But I can easily answer your question: It was a bad idea to outsource the list, from what I know of this world. Santa is literally magic. Why does he need to hire a third-party logistics company to make the list?"
Defector revived a series examining accessible holiday movies, centering on She's Making a List, a film about a consulting firm handling Santa's naughty-or-nice determinations. The film depicts Santa outsourcing moral judgments to the Naughty or Nice Group, which uses an algorithm to classify children's inherent goodness. Panelists question the logic and theology of outsourcing a magical being's core function, noting the film's line that the list existed since the beginning of time and that Santa predates Jesus. Critics find the outsourcing absurd, desire a humanized number-cruncher to explain the algorithm, and wonder why magical Santa would hire corporate consultants.
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