Cinema Snacks

It’s a Wonderful Life

Paula:

Aurora from Once Upon a Screen’s thoughts on the all-time favorite Christmas movie

Originally posted on Once upon a screen...:

All you can take with

you is that which you

give away.

A man finds out what the world would have been like if he’d never been born in…

wonderfullife

It’s a hell of a day. It’s Christmas eve and George Bailey sits on a stool in Martini’s Bar, Bedford Falls, USA. He’s desperate. Not a praying man, George asks God to show him the way because he’s at the end of his rope.

We love the man sitting on that bar stool. We feel for him. Deeply. We know him and we know his life, his family, his dreams, his heart. And, as far as hearts go, his is a huge one. By the age of twelve George had saved two lives – directly as it’s impossible to know how many others through those two – his brother Harry’s and his first boss’, Mr. Gower. He’d sacrificed for his…

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