NEW MEDIA: Polar Express – Incongruity
Well that’s rather dopey: the silent little boy picked up last from the other side of the tracks is singing by himself on the back of the train. He’s singing a very soulful sad Christmas song about how he’s never had a Christmas. The little girl goes out and joins him in singing, but her version is about how all the children get presents and how wonderful Christmas is. The poor kid keeps responding with "that I’ve never seen" type of stuff. Now what made the writers think that this little interaction was going to make the kid feel any better?
He doesn’t. He doesn’t get off the train when they arrive. Going with my religion theory here, does he represent those who have no reason to believe?
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology