It's a Wonderful Life
Jordan King

Review by Jordan King Patron

It's a Wonderful Life 1946

★★★★★

Rewatched 13 Dec 2020

Clarence: Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

I wonder, genuinely, how many lives has this film saved? I’m not talking about George Bailey’s, but yours, mine, that of those we love and those we’ve never met. Rare is the work of art that can genuinely change the world, but It’s A Wonderful Life, in all of its Old Hollywood, Dickensian wonder and splendour, has changed the world immeasurably has it not? Never has the value of every last human life been so succinctly, poignantly expressed as in the story of a man who has everything, feels he has and is nothing, and learns his worth through the chance to see what the world would be without him.

This is miraculous filmmaking, Frank Capra simply makes you want to live and love with all your heart and soul. And Jimmy Stewart? Man alive... he’s the greatest star Hollywood ever saw ain’t he? What a dreamboat of a guy.

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