...or is it? 2019

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2019)

This film is deeper than it may seem and so much more depressing and dark than generations seem to have caught on to.
Jimmy Stewart does not end up with A "wonderful life." He owes money, gets upset, disowns his kids, gets some "help" from a plot device Angel, and then is told to suck it with a smile after being shown a thinly veiled sociological interdependency argument. Otherwise, the film tells us that if you have friends and family, you're rich, and not being around has ripple effects on everyone.
Capra is actually showing us that we are all owned and force fed religious and hyper optimistic ideals, so that the rich and war profiteers can own cities at a time.
What a wonderful life.