You'll shoot your eye out kid

"A Christmas Story" is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Directed by Bob Clark, "A Christmas Story" is about a young boy named Ralphie who all he wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder, carbine action, 200 shot BB gun. It's a conflict throughout the whole story as Ralphie quickly understands that no one thinks he should get one. A great saying and something that is said the whole movie is, "you'll shoot your eye out kid". Ralphie will do anything to get his hands on this BB gun, whether it's to go tothe mall and ask Santa for it, or to write a school paper about why he wants one.

A lot of things go wrong with the family during the movie. The dad is kind of on his own. He makes this huge deal about this lamp in a shape of a leg. When he gets it, he makes the whole family help him set it up. Once it was ready, he turns off all the lights and goes outside for him to gaze at it. The shot that is used at that moment really shows the viewer how mesmerized the old man was. It shows how he sort of looks up to how unbelievable this prize is, which to the viewer doesn't seem like a prize at all. The father also has a battle with the house furnace and the nieghbors dogs who interupt their family dinner.

One of my favoirte scene's in the whole movie is when Ralphie walks down the stairs in his pink bunny suit that he got from his grandmother for Christmas. Clark does an excellent job her of making ralphie look like he is not having any fun and that he feels powerless with the rest of the family laughing at him. There is a long shot from the christmas tree looking at Ralphie head to toe in his bunny costume.

The movie is also about a lot of other things. The school bully, who picks on Ralphie everyday. The little brother who has outgrown his little red snowsuit that when he puts it on, he can't put his arms down.

Since the movie was released in 1983, It's interesting to see the similarities and differenced between the movie then and the real world today. No one puts soap in their kids' mouth when they get in trouble, the BB gun has change to a paintball or air soft gun and no prize would be a lamp of a women's leg. I think all of this adds to the humor of the story.

It's a typical family story of all the bumps and bruises they come along during the holidays. It's a great family movie and anyone can relate to it. Ralphie finally gets his Red Ryder BB gun and does in fact shoot his eye and it makes his glasses fall off. From the bully and the old man's prize, "The Christmas Story" is a classic.