"How Beautiful Life" tells many stories in one movie
A story of good and good rewards, a love story of green plums and bamboo horses, a story of individual unity overcoming capital, a story of an angel saving good people but not punishing bad people.
Let's start with the first story of good and good reward
George Bailey has been a righteous, kind, brave, optimistic and idealistic person since he was a child. When he was a child, he lost his hearing in his left ear in order to save his brother who slipped into the ice cave. In order to save the child who was mistakenly taken as poison because the pharmacy owner was too sad, he deliberately delayed the delivery of the medicine and was beaten by Goyle,Who understood the reason for the incident and forgave Goyle for keeping the secret. Seeing that his father was harassed and humiliated by the capitalist Potter, he stood up to defend his father's dignity and refuted Potter's greedy and selfish face.
He had dreams, and from an early age he dreamed of traveling the world, becoming an architect, building high-rise buildings, and building a beautiful metropolis.
The sudden death of his father caused him to give up traveling the world, and for the sake of the townspeople, he agreed to Porter's conditions to stay in the company founded by his father, leaving the opportunity to go to college to his brother. When his brother graduated, he thought it was time to realize his dream, but his brother brought back his wife from the big city, and for his brother's happiness and career, he chose to fulfill his brother, and he knew that he could not leave the town.
When he married his beloved Mary and was preparing for his honeymoon, he encountered a financial crisis, and for the sake of the company and the people of the town, he took out the money for the honeymoon and survived the financial crisis with the cooperation of everyone. Finally, because of his uncle's negligence, he lost eight thousand dollars, and in the helpless situation, he wanted to end his life and survive the crisis by insurance, but with the help of the angel, he saw everything he had done for the villagers, saw his own indispensability, and the importance of his family, he chose to give up that stupid idea, and when he returned home, at the call of his wife Mary, all the residents voluntarily gave up their savings, and even his former enemies were willing to fund twenty-five thousand dollars, and the deficit of eight thousand dollars was easily made up. He helped everyone in the town, and everyone was grateful, and everyone helped him when he was in trouble, which is called I am for everyone, everyone is for me.
The second love story, Lang rides a bamboo horse around the bed to get green plums, the love of green plum bamboo horses, I don't know how many people envy, because such love is too rare, need two people who grew up from a small piece, and love each other to death, which is rarer than the two-color ball. Mary also said to George when she was a child, I love you to death, but unfortunately I said it to the left ear, which is the inherent shyness of a child, and I saw each other again at George's brother's graduation party, and the four eyes looked at each other affectionately like a long-term acquaintance, everything was in silence. What is even more commendable is their dance, it turns out that as long as they are not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed, and their dance in the water makes everyone crazy, and only people with real temperament have such enthusiasm.
Mary is a very assertive girl, knows what is most precious, what she loves, is not swayed by the world, if not as desired, would rather be an old girl alone. She knew that she was not married to George in this life, George had everything she expected, and although George liked him, he did not dare to confess because he was bound by his family and the town for fear of delaying Mary, and under Mary's active hint and radical method, the two finally broke all barriers and embraced and kissed each other.
The most romantic thing I have seen is that my husband has distributed the money for his honeymoon to everyone because of the financial crisis, and the wife not only did not blame, but replaced the abandoned hotel with a different hotel signboard, and the leaky and dilapidated house became a marriage room, with the songs they had sung together, as well as the painting of the moon and the roast chicken in the fireplace. Plus two bartenders who sing blessings for their new marriage.
True romance has nothing to do with money, money is just a small flower on the brocade, of course, it is more beautiful, the lack of it will not make the brocade lose much color, brocade is still the same noble and elegant. It is about two intentions for each other's life, the husband to help everyone out of the crisis, and the wife to make up for each other's honeymoon, you understand that I help me, I get relief from your understanding and help, this is the real romance.
When George saw that his former love enemy had become rich and wealthy, living in a big house and driving a luxury car, George felt anxious about his inaction, felt that he was dragging Mary down, Mary should have lived better, and Mary's answer: I don't want to marry anyone else, I only want my children to grow up like you. This is the most beautiful love, one will think that they did not let the other person live a better life and blame themselves, while the other thinks that what they have is the most precious in the world, willing to work hard for this beauty, hug each other and support each other.
The third story: the unity of individuals triumphs over capital
This scene is playing out all the time around us, but unfortunately we don't have George around us, or we don't deserve To have George ourselves, so there is no such person as George, we can only watch capital complete the original accumulation, more and more powerful, so powerful that all aspects of life belong to capital control.
George's father and George had been running a small-town credit company all their lives, and they had not set up the company to make themselves rich, and they himself received only $45 a month. It is so that the poor people in the town can live in their own houses, can see doctors when they are sick, and everyone has food and clothing, and is not controlled by the capitalist Potter. It is his company that brings hope to the town and has a breath of life.
Because the company does not seek to maximize profits, as long as it can operate, they have the lowest interest loans to the poor in need, even without collateral, so that many poor people live in decent houses they built, no longer as hard as before, can only live in the slums provided by Porter, and the monthly income is not enough to pay Porter's interest and rent. The company affected Potter's interests, and Potter tried every means to suppress it, but each time it was skillfully defused by George's father and son, leaving Porter with no way to do anything.
They were able to resolve the crisis every time because the townspeople knew that their loan company had indeed brought them a lot of convenience and benefits to live with dignity, and when they saw George take out the money for his honeymoon during the financial crisis, they voluntarily depressed their personal expenses and helped George through the difficulties together. In the second major crisis, Porter mistakenly took the company's eight thousand dollars, not only did not return it, but also fell into the well, notified the bank and prosecutors to close the company, but with the generosity of all the people, they survived and did not let Potter succeed.
Potter controlled all the resources in the town, but he could not take down this small loan company, and it was with the selfless persistence and protection of George's father and son that he was able to leave a final pure land in front of capital. From the replay time without George, we see that the town under the control of capital has become unrecognizable to George, on the one hand, the numbness and drunkenness of the people at the bottom, and the decaying prosperity that Potter has built with capital. This is the power of capital, which makes the poor poorer and the rich richer.
Let's see if the same story is playing out all around us every day? Look at those things that have been done after the accumulation of primitive capital to form a monopoly, this matter can not be exemplified, said the article can not pass, everyone is not difficult to think of anyway, I want to ask you where our George is, George really appeared, when the crisis comes, we are willing to stand on the side of George like the residents of the town, and George to get through the difficulties, resist the monopoly of capital?
Fourth story: The angel saved the good man, but did not punish the bad man.
When George is ready to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river because of his difficulties, the appearance of the angel dispels his suicidal thoughts. There are no angels in our lives, the only one who saves us is ourselves, or we ourselves are our own angels, when we encounter great difficulties, don't give up lightly, living is hope, think about the people we care about the most. I really have no way out, then tell everyone the difficulties, let everyone think of a way together, one person's mountain will crush people, but most people can do it. Just like George, he thought he was cornered, and at Mary's call, in front of everyone, the road he thought was dead became a crossroads, and all roads awaited him.
In the movie, the angels just let George dispel the idea of suicide, see his own greatness, regain the pride and confidence of life, and finally solve the problem by himself and the townspeople. Originally the root of the problem came from the capitalist Potter took away the money of the poor man and caused it, the angel knew, but the angel did not say about the money all the time, perhaps it is the director's cleverness, the director knows that there will be no angels in reality, it is impossible to know where the money goes, it is impossible to get it back, so the angel has to not mention the money, the loss is ultimately borne by the poor people, and Porter bai picked up eight thousand dollars. Maybe the director is trying to tell us that Potter's capital is powerful and high interest, but he is legal, and the eight thousand dollars he picked up is not illegal, so no one can get it back, not even angels.