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This is what happens when a director conflates a parable with real-world nuance. No, we don't need to "both sides" this tale because Dickens wrote the story as it was meant to be understood. Scrooge made mistakes and needed a wakeup call. That's it.

"Maybe Scrooge was right-" he was not. He was a miserly asshole facing the same demise as his former business partners if he didn't make some serious changes with how he treats the people around him. That's the point.

I’ve seen adaptations that are very fair to Scrooge and explore the tragic ways he became the way he did. These adaptations still understood that the core of the work is the part where the ghosts show up and go “YOU GET WITH THE PROGRAM RIGHT THE FUCK NOW OR YOU’RE ON THE EXPRESS FERRY TO HELL”

Have always loved the Albert Finney musical version

That's my go-to favorite, with the George C. Scott version as a second. I guess there's so many good versions, they decided there needed to be a version that's stupid and misses the entire point of the story. 🤷

Muppet Version will always be the best. The Scrooge McDuck Disney one is also good too 🎄

Scrooged also does a dang good job contemporizing it, just to round out the trilogy that, by no coincidence, all emerged at the end of or in the close wake of Reaganism.

Have you seen Spirited? It's fun.

Haven't heard of that one!!