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Showing Original Post only (View all)Deconstructing "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" [View all]
Mr. Potter never engaged in nepotism by hiring his Uncle, and giving him the responsibility of caring for other peoples money.
The Bedford Falls Government hires incompetent public officials, like the tollkeeper who doesnt notice someone fall over the side of the bridge he's responsible for.
Clearly, Mr. Potter doesn't evict everyone who has a mortgage with the Building & Loan; otherwise they wouldn't have the money to patronize the music halls and clubs in Pottersville.
Do you remember a bar in Bedford Falls? Didnt they learn the lessons of Prohibition?
At the end of the movie, George Baileys daughter says: Teacher says: when a bell rings, an Angel gets its wings. A clear Church-State violation.
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What the fuck is Mr. Gower even doing with all that rat poison in the first place?
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2016
#19
The movie has an angel in it and you think it's the rat poison that isn't realistic?
pinboy3niner
Dec 2016
#20
Truly; it were an Ayn Rand work, he would have delivered a 40 page monologue on the value of
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2016
#22