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Merry Christmas everyone!
I, like millions of other people, rewatched It’s A Wonderful Life today and it hit me hardest it’s ever hit. Usually I’m fine up until that glorious and uproaring ending ([“To my big brother George, the richest man in town”](https://media.tenor.com/Nuk1UUoiaTcAAAAC/community-my-emotions.gif)), but this time it felt like every single scene had an emotional element to it.
Mr Gower’s breakdown, Harry’s return from college, the bank run (shoutout to that one sweet lady who asked for $17.50, that moment was sooo good), Bert & Ernie serenading the newlyweds, the “war rallying” scene with all the side characters etc.
It’s such a cinematic, yet easy to follow jump from scene to scene, encompassing what, like 25+ years? Has there ever been a better film to do this? Kept thinking surely Benjamin Button didn’t do it this well, did it?
Is there a better "life retrospective" film than It’s A Wonderful Life? from movies
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No, I don’t think so.
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
The Family Man. Nick Cage’s finest hour and a half.
Nope. It’s the gold standard.
Citizen Kane and The Godfather II (with I as backdrop) are both great at interweaving the past with the current storylines, but obviously with a much different feel.
It’s sort of A Christmas Carol and Citizen Kane mixed into one.
Click and Slumdog Millionaire are the only bad examples I have.
Naked Lunch & Trainspotting – are both pretty good as life retros
Forest Gump
That ending is *the* greatest scene ever filmed IMO.
The Les Marseilles scene from Casablanca and the cemetery scene from The Good The Bad and the Ugly are perhaps equally amazing, but the finale to IAWL just hits me on a more personal level. I literally cry every single time despite no other movie ever making me tear up.
Big Fish?
About Time (2013)
Definitely, Maybe (2008) Not in the same league but still one of my favourites
It’s in a class of its own. Having said that, another movie that puts life into perspective that had me feeling close it when I first saw it was Groundhog Day. So maybe that.
Im thinking of ending things