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That tone would have been a snap for Kubrick in the days of The Killing (1956), Lolita (1962), and Dr. Strangelove (1964), and a stretch after 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), when his storytelling acquired an all-purpose lugubriousness.
Carey's cheerful ham-fistedness turns out to be just what is called for to correct Dickens' lugubriousness.