Miracle on 34th Street/YMMV

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  • Complete Monster: Kris believes Sawyer to be "a heartless man with no humanity." Whether or not he's really that bad is up to interpretation.
    • Well, he did convince a guy that his desire to be nice to people is a mental affliction. He's doing it for free, so he's not in it for the money. And it wouldnt further his career. Mostly, it seems to be For the Evulz
  • Values Dissonance: Everyone is perfectly fine with a little girl being left in the care of the dashing stranger across the hall. But to be fair, Mrs. Walker's housekeeper does assure her she's been keeping an eye on them through a pair of windows facing each other across the lightwell.
    • Dialogue suggests that Susan had already spent a lot of time with Mr. Gailey in the past, so he wasn't exactly a stranger to her even though Doris had never personally met him. Not that a young girl spending a lot of time unsupervised with an adult man with little involvement of the girl's legal guardian isn't a serious case of Values Dissonance.
  • Values Resonance: On the other hand, this film seems really ahead of its time with Doris Walker being a successful business executive whose delegated authority no one disputes and there is no mention of her ever giving up her career for Fred Gailey, since he doesn't object to that, only the attitude she's adopted along with it.
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