My Thoughts On It's A Wonderful Life

A small, verbal skirmish broke out at my house this past Christmas when I dropped the whammy of a fact that I've never seen the movie 'It's A Wonderful Life'. Clearly, my Aunt's flabber was gasted.

Aunt (with an incredulous tone): You've never seen it?

Me: Nope. Never.

Aunt: Never?

Me: Nope.

Aunt (with a bit of outrage): It's A Wonderful Life? You've never seen it?

Me: Not one time.

Aunt: Why not?

Me: Because it doesn't look very funny and I like funny movies.

Aunt (fully outraged now): You have to have seen it! Everyone has seen it! It's part of the social fabric of our society!

Me: Eh. Big woo.

It is on my list of Must See movies. I take my list very seriously, which is why I sucked it up and watched It's A Wonderful Life on Saturday.

Know what? I liked it. Against all odds, I liked this movie.

On the surface it has everything going against it, meaning that it includes a couple of my big movie pet peeves: it's over two hours long (I hate that, with the exception of 'The Shawshank Redemption' which is wonderfully perfect in every way) and it won major awards. Generally speaking, I don't dig movies that have won awards (with the exception of the aforementioned Shawshank, again which is wonderfully perfect in every way). So color me shocked when I liked 'It's A Wonderful Life'.

Of course, I do like slightly absurd stuff.

And yes, 'Life' has some slightly absurd stuff in it. Like the names of George and Mary's four children: Janie, Peter, Tommy, and Zuzu.

Zuzu?

Yeah, Zuzu.

To recap: I surprised myself by liking 'It's A Wonderful Life'. I like the characters, I like the story, and I really like the name Zuzu. Good thing I'm not planning on having any more children because Zuzu could be in the mix as a name. Pin It Now!