It's a Wonderful Life

85Living historically.

The household, the neighbor, the quiet no to a predator. Keep this one in the house.

The review

George Bailey wants out, and the movie loves him for wanting a larger life, and then it makes the case that the larger life was the one he kept refusing to abandon. Potter is what industry looks like with no neighbor in it. George is what it looks like when a man uses a small institution to keep ordinary people from being owned.

It is sentimental. Sentiment is not a sin when the facts underneath are solid. The facts are solid. A good name, a wife who tells the truth, a house full of drafty rooms and children, a town that shows up with cash because you showed up for years. If the irony of the age has gotten into your joints, watch this in December or in June and let it offend you back to life.

Journal

Keep It's a Wonderful Life in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 85. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

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Industry
A building and loan is unglamorous work and it saves streets.
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Household
Marriage, children, a drafty house. The domestic life is the victory.
8
Piety
Prayer is not a joke here. A man at the end of himself asks.
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Courage
The bravest thing he does is stay, and refuse Potter, and not jump.
9
Republic
A town of neighbors is the whole theory of the republic in one square.
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Temperance
Despair is faced. It is not the aesthetic.
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Truth
His word is the business model.
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Stewardship
Posterity is the plot: the lives that exist because he did not leave.

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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

9
Industry
The building and loan is dull work, and it is how the neighbors stay in their houses.
9
Household
A marriage he almost missed, and children in the rooms he thought were a trap.
8
Piety
He prays when he is out of answers. The prayer is not a gag.
8
Courage
He jumps in the river for a stranger and has been jumping in for the town for years.
9
Republic
Potter would own the street. George is the reason there is still a street.
7
Temperance
Despair gets a night. It does not get the ending.
8
Truth
The lost deposit is a real bill. The town pays it back in cash and in names.
10
Stewardship
Every house he kept is a house someone else's child sleeps in.

Where to watch

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