Film · Paramount · 1946
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It's a Wonderful Life
85Living historically.
He kept a town and could not see it. The life was the staying.
The review
George Bailey measures his life by the trips he did not take. The film measures it by the people who still have a key. That argument is the one this desk exists to make. A famous life is not the standard. A kept town is.
Watch it with the people who share your roof. The angel is the device. The Building and Loan is the point. If the last reel makes you want to be seen, you watched it wrong. It should make you want to be useful where you already are.
Journal
Keep It's a Wonderful Life in the record.
The Bailey house filed 85. He kept a town and could not see it. We put it on after supper.
Live Historic number 85. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
The building and loan is dull work, and it is how the neighbors stay in their houses.
- 9Household
A marriage he almost missed, and children in the rooms he thought were a trap.
- 8Piety
He prays when he is out of answers. The prayer is not a gag.
- 8Courage
He jumps in the river for a stranger and has been jumping in for the town for years.
- 9Republic
Potter would own the street. George is the reason there is still a street.
- 7Temperance
Despair gets a night. It does not get the ending.
- 8Truth
The lost deposit is a real bill. The town pays it back in cash and in names.
- 10Stewardship
Every house he kept is a house someone else's child sleeps in.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · It's a Wonderful Life · 85IMDb tt0038650
