It really is "a wonderful life"

Rod Bennett has a fascinating article about what happened when he stumbled across the movie It's a Wonderful Life as a teenager. If you've ever written it off as an overplayed, overly optimistic movie, you must read this. An excerpt:

I was...rather badly shaken up by this old film that everyone else seems to find so mild and safe. I had no way of knowing, in my simplicity, that It's A Wonderful Life is old-fashioned, sentimental, and preaches an easy, cheap optimism. It seemed to me a rather horrifyingly costly optimism: take up your cross—for whoever clings to his life will lose it, but whoever lays down his life will save it unto life eternal.

Read the whole thing.


via Relevant Radio