How wonderful is “It’s A Wonderful Life”? (family, message, classic)
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It was both - sentimental drivel, but at the same time deals with very real issues - like the fact that financial problems can lead one to contemplate suicide.
It was overly romantic for me, but everyone should see it at least once.
I find that odd mix of sentimentality ("Capracorn" as they sometimes call it) and darker themes in many of Frank Capra's films.
Always in my rotation of must-watch Christmas movies each year. Just has a classic Christmas-feel to it, which is even more special nowadays because throughout the years, Christmas/the holidays gets more and more commercial and less personal (heck....I hardly even physically go into stores to get gifts anymore and fewer malls are around, so I don't even get to experience hustle/bustle feel and all the decorations I used to). So I appreciate movies like these.
I have this on rotation, along with: A Christmas Story, Christmas Carol, Home Alone, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Miracle on 34th Street (the original).
To me, one lesson that came from the movie is this: Sometimes ambitious people should sacrifice their dreams and stay in their hometowns because their community needs them.
Gee, I hope you didn't this message. Everyone doesn't have to be a martyr. Did he sacrifice or did he choose between two options? Choice and sacrifice are two different things. We don't know the long story. Did he come to regret the "sacrifice?" Did he begin to resent his neighbors?
Life isn't as clean and simple like how it looks in the movies.
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