I know this isn't going to endear me to anybody, but I've actually only seen IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE once - and I've avoided it ever since. After years of hearing it touted as this fabulous holiday feast, I was viscerally dismayed to experience the real darkness that this film embraces. I agree that the end message is one of importance, but the journey to get there was much rockier and full os darkness than I ever would have imagined given the reputation.
I absolutely understand why people respond to it the way they do, but I just can't open myself to that depth of despair to get a lesson that I don't really need.
I do have to say, though, that Jimmy really is spectacular in the film - there's a reason he's my favorite of the 'old Hollywood' stars.
At last, someone else who views this "classic" as I do. Marry me DG! I have also only seen it completely through one time. I tune in for a few minutes when it airs and then I have to turn it off. A very, dark depressing movie.
...and my interpretation of that 'darkness' is so different. Most of the movie is about the growing realization that 'there's no place like home'... And how each life touches another life, and there are good and bad forces which challenge us along the way and our character is revealed in our response to the challenges.
But, that's just my opinion.
Good morning, all.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
How about both, just to cover all the bases? *grabs Undi's boobs*
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.