It’s A Wonderful Life

[Philosophy Now]

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/165/Its_A_Wonderful_Life

[Gary Childress]

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/165/It ... erful_Life

Funny, I always thought the point of the movie was to make audiences enduring the Great Depression feel warm, fuzzy and hopeful that they were going to be rescued by God or guardian angels (or whatever) in the end and ride off into the eternally blissful sunset or something. If the movie had any similarity to any kind of reality it would have ended with George old, feeble and decrepit slowly watching his arthritic body deteriorate with the very last scene being of him being pickled and shoved into a coffin. Optimists know no reality.

[ThinkOfOne]

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/165/It ... erful_Life

Funny, I always thought the point of the movie was to make audiences enduring the Great Depression feel warm, fuzzy and hopeful that they were going to be rescued by God or guardian angels (or whatever) in the end and ride off into the eternally blissful sunset or something. If the movie had any similarity to any kind of reality it would have ended with George old, feeble and decrepit slowly watching his arthritic body deteriorate with the very last scene being of him being pickled and shoved into a coffin. Optimists know no reality.

Enduring the Great Depression? Actually, it takes place post WWII. Not sure why, but many seem to think that all black-and-white films are much older than they are.

[Gary Childress]

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/165/It ... erful_Life

Funny, I always thought the point of the movie was to make audiences enduring the Great Depression feel warm, fuzzy and hopeful that they were going to be rescued by God or guardian angels (or whatever) in the end and ride off into the eternally blissful sunset or something. If the movie had any similarity to any kind of reality it would have ended with George old, feeble and decrepit slowly watching his arthritic body deteriorate with the very last scene being of him being pickled and shoved into a coffin. Optimists know no reality.

Enduring the Great Depression? Actually, it takes place post WWII. Not sure why, but many seem to think that all black-and-white films are much older than they are.

My bad. The 1930s were the golden age of Hollywood and mostly B&W films, I was thinking it came from then.