"The Grinch" deforms children into weak snowflakes in the spirit

The best Christmas movies are filled with hard and cold truths.

In "Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer", we learned that a person – a mammal – could be the victim of intimidation and self-doubt on the road to success.

"Home Alone" has taught us the potentially fatal consequences of tunnel vision during a vacation that is supposed to be a place to live together.

And "How Grinch Christmas flew" was a lesson that really mean people exist in this world and that our best response to them is kindness. Even the overactive version of Jim Carrey understood it.

But in this holiday season, children discover a new Grinch, more respectful and less scary. A Grinch to take home to your mother. A Grinch who is already a very good guy before Cindy Lou and the singing city of Whoville shows him the way.

A Grinch for whom change is a child's game.

In the latest version of Dr. Seuss' story – abbreviated as "The Grinch", because we dare to present the concept of theft to innocent cherubim, Benedict Cumberbatch expresses the once terrifying character of a sad, grouchy bag. A Squidward, if you want. There is no threat or anger; nothing triggers potentially about it. He's just cranky.

More curious, the Mean One regularly ventures to Whoville and discusses with the Whos! He's shopping – gag – at Who Foods. One Who, Mr. Bricklebaum (Kenan Thompson), is obsessed with the Grinch and even calls him his best friend. Suddenly, he's more like Boo Radley than an odious mountain hermit.

At home, Max, Grinch's dog, is no longer an abused servant. It is rather an under-estimated roommate. When the puppy is overworked, the Grinch often asks him if he is ok. He's a guy whose "heart is an empty hole", "the brain is full of spiders" and has "garlic in [his] soul"?

Later, as the green goblin prepares to steal all the presents under the Whoville trees, he lovingly lets Fred, the fat reindeer, take off his harness and spend the holidays with his family.

And if Ebenezer Scrooge said to Bob Cratchit, "I'm going to raise your salary and try to help your family in trouble!" In the middle of "A Christmas Carol" instead of the last two pages? There would be no reason.

Well, it's a Grinch movie whose zero point goes beyond society's destructive habit of protecting children from harmless and potentially useful stories. In the era of social media trolls, watching a lonely ghost and really disgusting change would be a positive message for kids. Whoever defies seasonality and they could carry with them.

Instead, we want to protect the little ones from the harsh realities of the world, so that when they finally enter, they prefer the warm embrace of their parents' basement.

Absolutely Seuss-less.