It really is a ‘Wonderful Life’

I’m a big fan of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. It used to be a Christmas tradition of mine to watch it whenever the Christmas season rolls around—I suppose, like a lot of other people. I don’t really know exactly what I like about it, other than that it’s a positive feel-good film. Well, I guess I know one thing I like about it—it shows an example of a man down on his luck who loses sight of all that he has. He begins to look at his problems which seem so big that they overshadow the whole of his life. But they don’t really. It only appears that way to him.


I suppose I can relate to his dilemma; that’s why this movie resonates with me. And that could be its broad appeal to countless others since it was made. George Bailey, the owner of the Bailey Building and Loan, finds out his company is short of funds—about 8000 dollars. It’s been lost, actually. His Uncle Billy loses it when he unwittingly hands it to his arch nemesis, Mr. Potter, in a rolled up newspaper. Of course, the twists and turns this scene provides are what make for a compelling story. George Bailey soon finds himself at his wits end (8000 dollars was actually a lot of money in 1945). He doesn’t know what to do or where to turn. None of his friends are capable of coming up with such a huge sum, except for one, and he’s out of the country. There’s only one he can turn to—Mr. Potter, the very one who found the same 8000 dollars he’s misplaced. Of course, Mr. Potter doesn’t see this as an opportunity to be forthcoming, but an opportunity to take down his arch rival, George Bailey and the Bailey Building and Loan. Instead of returning the money when George calls upon him for help, he accuses him of misappropriations of funds and malfeasance and calls the cops on him. Nice guy. George quickly finds himself at his wit’s end and contemplates taking his own life. But instead of jumping off a bridge he ends up saving another who jumps off the bridge—an angel, Clarence. After drying themselves off, George makes an off-hand remark wishing he had never been born. Clarence—seeing an opportunity—grants this odd request and proceeds to show him a world with no George Bailey; it’s an entirely different world. It’s a world where most everything is worse off because he was never there. It’s here where George comes to a realization. He comes to a realization of the importance of his life and what a great life he had. He realizes that whatever problems he had, they were minute in comparison to the gifts he’d been given. Now, by the end, he’s wishing for the chance to live again. To this, Clarence again gladly grants his wish.

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