Movie Notes: It’s A Wonderful Life

December 25th, 2008

It's A Wonderful Life

This week, we watched It’s A Wonderful Life — a classic Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. If you haven’t seen it by now, you’ve probably consciously avoided it. It’s definitely worth seeing all the way through. I still enjoy it, even after around ten viewings (always around Christmas), and there are still some parts that always make me chuckle, while others make me well up. But despite being largely a positive, uplifting movie, there are some aspects of it that are extremely dark and negative.

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