Angela's Christmas Wish อธิษฐานคริสต์มาสของแองเจิลลา (2020) [ พากย์ไทย บรรยายไทย ]

SOMEWHAT SHOCKINGLY FOREBODING SUBTITLE: LIMERICK, IRELAND, 1913. Young Angela (voice of Lucy O’Connell), her three siblings and her Mam (Ruth Negga) bid their dear Da (Moe Dunford) adieu as he boards a boat for a long journey to Australia. ANOTHER SUBTITLE THAT EXPLAINS WHY THE FIRST ONE WAS SOMEWHAT SHOCKINGLY FOREBODING: TWO YEARS LATER. Da is still gone. Mam is kind of tense — wouldn’t you be, if you were raising four kids by yourself for two years? It’s Christmas Eve, and Angela is talking to the plaster Baby Jesus she stole back in Angela’s Christmas because she was worried he was cold in church. Notably, Baby Jesus is wearing a sweater now.

Angela yearns for a fancy doll in the window display in the local toy and hosiery shop and, like a typical kid, kind of won’t shut up about it. Her yearnings may not be feasible, because the family appears to be a bit financially strapped. Their home is modest, small and sparse; the four kids share a room, but we don’t get the impression that anyone’s starving. The family’s collective yearning is for Da to come home for Christmas, but that may not be feasible either. Angela and her brother Tom (Oscar Butler) decide they’ll surprise Mam by finding a way to bring Da home, and their initial instinct to grab a spade and start digging perhaps reflects their geographical ignorance. Their inevitable further adventures — hey guess what, the digging plan didn’t work — involve an old man with a pregnant cow and the veterinary services he can’t afford, and the vet’s daughter Dorothy (Lola Metcalfe), all elements that somehow tie into the main story about wishing Da was back in Limerick for the holidays. It all works, somehow.