Deconstructing "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

[Warpy]

10. The main problem I had with it is that

Potterstown looked like a lot more fun than boring Bedford Falls. It's a product of its time, the end of WWII and the fading of Depression traumas when people just wanted to get "normal" and have a clutch of kids and a house in the burbs. Capra's glurge fed directly into the propaganda push that got women fired from the best jobs they'd ever had and told to get married and back into the kitchen.

By the time I was ten, I realized I preferred the music and lights of Potterstown. His overpriced shacks weren't any worse than some of the dumps we'd lived in and I was sick of the stifling suburban life that seemed to suck the joy and energy out of everybody.