The story of the movie "How Beautiful Life" takes place in a small town called Befort Fox, when the male protagonist George was 12 years old, in order to save his brother Harry, who fell into the ice cave, he fell ill with a severe cold, resulting in deafness in his left ear.
There was one of the richest and most despicable people in the town, named Henry Potter, who controlled most of the town, and many of the town's residents rented his apartments, were oppressed and bullied by him.
George, who works odd jobs at Daddy Goyle's drugstore, dreams of being an explorer, and at the age of 12 he tells the little girl Mary that one day he will go on an expedition, with a group of wives and concubines, and to beg for three or four wives.
Mary, on the other hand, took advantage of his bowing head to take something and said to his deaf left ear: George Bailey, I will love you to the death.
Grief-stricken and insane due to the death of his son, Father Goyle pours poison into the capsule that is meant to treat Mrs. Brian's son, which is discovered by George in time and informs Father Goyle that he did not make a big mistake. George promised Father Goyle that he would never tell anyone about it.
A few years later, George grew up, he finally saved enough money to travel the world, he was going to Italy, Baghdad, Samarkand, he was going to college, he wanted to be a millionaire before the age of thirty, he was full of blood and ambition, he was going to go to the world!!
However, just before George's trip, his father died of a heart attack, and he had to give up traveling around the world. The directors of the "Bay Brothers Building Loan Contract Company, founded by his father and Uncle Billy," elected George as the new administrative secretary, and if he did not take office, the company would be dissolved.
George really couldn't bear to let his father's hard-working company be dissolved like this, and he didn't want the entire town's residents to continue to be ruled by Porter, continue to live in the slums, and continue to be oppressed by Potter, so George gave up college, he gave up all the money he saved to Harry, Harry went to college and became a football star in college.
George is waiting with great anticipation for Harry to graduate, hoping that he will come back to take over the company after graduation, so that he can realize his dream of traveling around the world. But Harry brought back his wife after graduation and had a promising job.
George married the Mary who had told him when he was 12 years old that he would love him to death, and he said he was going to drop his damn job and take Mary on his honeymoon, to New York for a week, to Bermuda for a week. However, on the day of their wedding, because of the company's problems, George and Mary took out the two thousand dollars for their honeymoon and distributed it to the townspeople, and their honeymoon trip was also ruined.
George finally built a housing area for the villagers: Bailey Court.
More and more of the townspeople owned their own houses, no longer had to be oppressed by Potter, and Potter's rule in the town gradually shrank.
Potter tried to lure George into giving up the company to work for him with a high salary and going abroad, but George sternly refused, but this also hit George hard, because he could not let his wife live in a better house, could not buy her more beautiful clothes, and did not realize his dream of traveling around the world, George felt that he was really a loser.
When World War II broke out, George became the guardian of the town because he was deaf in his left ear and could not become a soldier, while Harry became a naval pilot and made a great contribution.
On the day before Christmas, the news that the president himself presented Harry with a medal of honor was put in the newspaper, and George bought a wad of newspapers to send to everyone in town to show them how great and brilliant his heroic brother was.
On the same day, when the bank account keeper came to the company to check the accounts, Uncle Billy lost the company's eight thousand dollars due to carelessness, and if he could not find the money, George and Uncle Billy were not only discredited, faced with various debt collections, but also went to jail.
George was very depressed, he came home to see his beautiful wife, saw a few children, and saw the old house that was leaking everywhere, and he suddenly had a lot of frustration, thinking that if he didn't have himself, maybe his wife and children could live a better life, and if he didn't have himself, maybe the world would be a better place.
He ran to Potter for help, but was taunted by Potter, saying that he was a mischievous and failed young man, and that he was worth more than living.
George was defeated and desperate for himself, and he ran to a bridge, wanting to die. At this time, the angel appeared, and George said to the angel that if he had never come to this world for a while, then his relatives and friends would be happier. So the angel made his wish come true, turning the world into something that had never been george before.
George found that no one in the world knew him anymore, and the world without him had changed dramatically.
Father Goyle was sentenced to twenty years in prison for poisoning people with the wrong medicine, and after his release he became an old beggar and was bullied.
The Bay Brothers Building Loan Contract Company closed its doors many years ago.
Driver Ernie still lives in a small dilapidated house in the Porter slum, and his wife left him with her children three years ago because of poverty.
George and Mary's home is still an abandoned, uninhabited, dilapidated house.
George's mother became a well-tempered old lady.
Uncle Billy went to a mental hospital due to business failures.
Bailey Court doesn't exist at all, it's still a cemetery.
Harry fell into an ice cave at the age of 9, and no one rescued him.
Mary never married, and became an old girl who was not cute or beautiful.
George finally realized the importance of himself, finally realized how much his friends and relatives needed him, he didn't want to die, he didn't want to disappear himself, he wanted to return to the world where he existed, even if he went to jail.
However, he did not go to jail, because when the residents heard that George was in trouble and needed money, all the residents rushed to his house to donate money, and they took out all their savings to help George, because they had all been helped by George, and without George they would be more unfortunate than today.
The angel completes his mission to save George and returns to heaven, and George finally realizes the meaning of his life.
I thought that this film was about responsibility, but I finally understood that in fact, the whole film from beginning to end is about love, kindness, selflessness, to be a good person, is to insist on me as a person at all costs.
The male protagonist George, because of kindness and responsibility, gives up his dreams again and again, he hopes to go to the world, but he has never left the sloppy town in his life.
He did not achieve any great cause, all his life he stuck to the small broken office left to him by his father, did not become a millionaire, just a "loser" who took a salary of dozens of yuan a month, did not have a tenacious will, lost a few thousand yuan and desperately wanted to commit suicide, but he was so beautiful, so good that everyone loved him, and everyone helped him when he was in trouble!
When you are snubbed or bullied by others, you may wonder why God sometimes does not give back to good people. In fact, God makes you a good person, which is the greatest reward. You may not necessarily enjoy more materially, but you will certainly be less malicious, abusive and cursed by others, and you will definitely get more kindness and smiles, which is the return!
When you experience setbacks and failures, you may question the meaning of your own survival, but think about the people and things around you, if you don't have you, what they would be like.
In our life, there may be a lot of helplessness, many things can not be done, but even in such a situation, we must believe that our existence has irreplaceable significance, everything we do is not in vain, we are very important!
Believe at all times that you are as small as dust, but you are extremely important.
Text/Moon Warm Sun