So IMO Clarence is an alien who is observing Earthlings and assists George Bailey. He has some gadget that transports George Bailey into a parallel universe/reality where the event of him not being born defines that Universe from his pov.
After seeing the ramifications, he decides to come back and Clarence helps him get back to his original universe.
The whole angel and other crap is just ... crap. This is a very good SciFi movie
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BTTF wasn't even in my mind when I reached this conclusion.
shareI would say your opinion is complete nonsense. Believe in God or not, in the wolrd of It's A Wonderful Life we are shown God is real, Angels are real and they intervene in the World when necessary.
Why would the Angels, Clarence and his superiors, speak among themselves as angels if they were aliens?
We're not shown anything that opposes what i say in the movie. We see a few blinky lights and off screen voices.
That's it. Who's not to say they aren't aliens communicating? Maybe the aliens call themselves angels.
But they are aliens. And you're free to believe in god or whatever else but the movie is a SciFi movie with alien called Clarence and a parallel universe being shown.
There is no use arguing with someone who deludes themselves.
Depending on your belief system, this could be classified as a fantasy. But it is certainly not SF.
You sound like Mr. Terrific in DC comics who had met an actual angel and convinced himself the angel must not actually be an angel. If it doesn't meet my opinion on what exists, it must be something else.
Angels aren't science. It could be considered a fantasy.
shareI didn't write Science. I wrote SciFi - which is Science Fiction. Angels are fiction
shareI know what SciFi is. Angels don't make it SciFi.
shareThey're actually aliens. You even saw them shown in the universe as some other life forms. These people called them "angels" which is religious but technically they were alien beings.
Ergo, this is a SciFi movie involving parallel universe travels. Kinda like the show "The Man in the High Castle"