THIS is what's wrong. THIS is what's wrong with EVERYTHING in America. The New York Times has spoken and decided it really WOULD have been better if George Bailey had never been born. Pottersville looks like more fun than Bedford Falls? Is this a JOKE?
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I really hate the NY Times writers. They are so unbelievably pretentious that I throw up in my mouth after reading about every article. They are so self aware of their little spittles of humor that I can almost smell the starch on their collars and see the computer screen through their fashionably round, writer-esque specs.
I do believe that the movie is actually hitting home this year for this particular writer... His stocks in the toilet... NY Times SERIOUSLY close to bankruptcy... (700 million in the hole) his job and financial stability, not to mention his self-worth -- all on the edge of the abyss. He's starting to wonder just what he has done in life and whom he has loved.
And THAT'S who this movie depresses: Those who have lived such a self-centered life they have forgotten that what matters most at the end or when times suck is who you love and who loves you.
It is the miserable, preening, prissy miser that hates these times the worst. And this man, just like every single writer on the NY Times staff, is very close to having to Ebay-auction the silver stick he's had up his ass for the past 10-20 years.
And now, what is it time for? What does he decide to pick on to flush out his angst?
However... I have had my moments of anger watching this film... the person that ticks me off the most is Harry. A selfish little wanker if you ask me... I've always thought that. But again, the film isn't a treatise on "why one should give up their dreams" it is a commentary on love, forgiveness, and hope despite the sucky circumstances that life so often deals you. It is about what matters most at the end of the day. Will you die a lonely old man with cuddling your dream-trophies? Or will you die remembering all the people you have loved and who love you.
I could go on and on here... You touched a nerve, my friend. Ouch.
Few people know that CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS is an anti-Religon, leftist propoganda movie. All the films are. Notice the Thanksgiving popcorn-an obvious alusion to the failure of economics in our society due to the devaluation of stocks and the inaccessible cost of turkey for the middle classes and an anti-Hoover statement. There was obviously NOT a chicken in every pot or they would be eating it. Those Peanuts are dreadful...but I love them! Equality to all!
Yeah. I always thought it was about how, even when you THINK you've missed all these opportunities and that your life has been a great big failure, chances are, it actually HASN'T.
I think it's really weird that he got so hung up on Donna Reed's "oppresively perfect" housewife. As if a drunken, argumentative, floozy would be so much better. I can't STAND the way people in "the arts" love to criticize family values of the 50s.
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