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It's a Wonderful Life?

posted 12 years ago by Sitcom_Sally
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I just finished watching It's a Wonderful Life and posted that I don't love the film like other do, despite it having so many elements I like in a film. Someone else posted about the false hope of the message. Maybe that's why I don't love it like others and do enjoy this one so much. I can suspend disbelief for a film that's more fantastical, but if it's trying to be realistic then I'm going to be a realist. For other Home for the Holidays fans, how do you feel about It's a Wonderful Life?

- Sally

The perfect human being is uninteresting. - Joseph Campbell

[–] melissa_bizz 12 years ago

I love "It's a Wonderful Life." I don't think it gives false hope...family does come through sometimes, and sometimes they don't. Both movies are valid view points with their own messages.

"I can't sit down. These aren't my pants."

[–] Sitcom_Sally 12 years ago

It wasnt so much false hope about his family as it was about the society in which he lived. the message that you can have an epiphany and all will be well, end of story. Usually when people have epiphanies like that they feel great at first then they get back to reality and it's not as great as they felt at that moment. Home for the Holidays isn't like that. If everyone kissed and made up I don't think so many who love this movie would like it so much. Many have posted that the fact that it's so realistic is exactly what they love about it.

- Sally

The perfect human being is uninteresting. - Joseph Campbell

[–] melissa_bizz 12 years ago

A true epiphany will change your life.

"I can't sit down. These aren't my pants."

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[–] Bowserb46 8 years ago

Frank Capra 1947. Jodie Foster 1995. We have both on DVD and cannot have Thanksgiving and Christmas without them.

[–] Foster (876) 7 months ago

MAYBE

We should go to the "It's a Wonderful Life" board to talk about it