Mr. Potter is a remarkably detailed description of the Deep State: ancient, psychopathic, greedy, cold, evil, and uncaring. He uses financial as well as psychological manipulation to try to convince George Bailey to work for him, and then tries to crush him when the opportunity arises. There's even a scene when Potter declines a call from a congressman because he's busy.
George Bailey is the normie who undergoes his own Awakening: a thoroughly decent man whose acts positively impact many around him and constantly battles Potter. He becomes angry, depressed, and suicidal when he's exhausted by the constant efforts to improve his life that never lines up with his dreams. When meeting Clarence, he frequently challenges Clarence's assertions, not just about being an angel, but helping him understand how he needs to change his perception of his own reality, and even gets a chance to see an alternative timeline.
Clarence is the Anon who brings him back from the brink: quirky and imperfect, but determined to do his job despite all the challenges he faces in trying to change George Bailey's mind, and is awarded with wings and gratitude for succeeding.
The film is an incredible red pill. In retrospect, It's remarkable that this film (along with Mr. Smith Goes To Washington) ever got made.
This is what is wrong with movies and series today. Lack of Morals. Produce good shows like Andy Griffin, Beverly Hillbillies, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie and perhaps the Brady Bunch. If producers and writers would come up with more moral programming, our kids wouldn't be so brainwashed and society would be much better. And let's keep God in the mix. Amen.
You forgot my favorite... Leave it to Beaver 😄
So glad my parents raised me to love this one & the ones u/Mary911 listed. My kids love them too.
There Goes the Neighborhood?
Sorry. I loved Beaver Cleaver and Wally. I used to watch The Donna Reed Show, Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Gilligans Island, Hogan's Heroes and Gomer Pyle. Loved them all.
Yep, "things" seemed to change from wholesome between the Three's Company - Miami Vice period (tho some would say Mary Tyler Moore) But we did have Roseanne and Dr Huxtable along the way lmao? My wife & daughter loved 7th Heaven around the time Friends came out.
I think there should be an updated version called Frens
I'm with you. And I'm guessing you must have been born in either the early or late 70's.
'67 Mary... 1967 😔
Okay. You're my baby sister's age. I was born in 1960.
WE have to do this for ourselves.
We can't expect Hollyweird to do it for us. They want the opposite of what we want.
Got ideas? Start writing them down.
That's what I'm doing.
Best of luck!
Been watching little house lately… it makes me desperately long for something I never knew I was missing or even knew existed.
I watched the entire "Little House" series and "The Waltons." I've also read all of Laura Ingalls Wilder books and Spencer's Mountain by Earl Hamner Jr. as a child. Anything pertaining to the long ago peaceful life attracted me.
Watch the "Obsolete Man" episode of The Twilight Zone if you get a chance. Can't even believe it was made by Hollywood.
The infiltration was slow and steady.
OMG those are some of my favorites too! We were watching regularly for awhile. You will LOVE the Obsolete Man.
LOL I always thought that episode was the inspiration for Chuckie.
One of my favorite movies of all time. I try to watch every year or two.
Last night, I, too noticed Pottersfield as the Deep State vision for America: perverse, greedy, immoral, hatred, disrespectful, etc.
We, by God's grace and our prayers, are the only thing in the way of their vision being a reality.
Little trivia for you. Potter was played by Lionel Barrymore, Drew’s (great? grandfather). He was a remarkable actor and was in some of the first Hollywood films in the silent era, and went onto win best actor in 1930. The scene where he offers Stewart’s character $20k a year was largely ad libbed by Barrymore, and I thought he really nails the evil, scheming, money grubber perfectly.
In addition, Stewart himself was a bad ass and joined the military prior to Pearl Harbor as a pilot, and spent time as a flight instructor before going on to flying numerous bombing missions in the B-24 where crews life expectancy was 8 missions, he flew 20.
Our family watches this movie on Christmas Eve while we wrap presents. One of my favorite films of all time.
Lionel Barrymore was Drew's granduncle, the brother of her grandfather John (her father, John's, father).
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Great analysis. I have not watched it in a while, so I will.
also the Lesson that WE ALL affect the OUTCOME!!! Never felt it more than this. Watching last Nite was an Epiphany for me also.
I haven't watched that in a few years as well, and I admit that's a very interesting and spot on way to look at the movie! Gonna have to rewatch it today. Merry Christmas fren!
Hilarious! I'm watching it as I read this!
I finished it last night before going to bed (started it earlier this week and had to stop a few times). Your assessment is spot on. I'm reading Jimmy's biography and it makes it even more special.
Very enlightening. I will watch it again with new eyes. :)
This is an example of controlled opposition. If our reality is fantasy, what is "fantasy?"
The truth needs an outlet. By making that outlet fantasy (a movie) it solidifies in the mind the "fantasy" nature of something. We say, "Oh, that was a great movie," and then we go back to our debt slavery lives and wish, and hope, that just a little bit of the fantasy can creep into our lives.
The Matrix controls all sides. The Matrix is all sides. Every thought, every belief we have, is controlled by a single source.
How then do we escape this Gordian Knot? Stop "believing" in any absolute sense. Allow yourself to look at the evidence, no matter what that evidence is or what the source of that evidence is. Allow yourself to engage in the debate process and really listen to what others have to say, but at the same time, don't trust anyone. Listen in earnest, don't ever "trust." Trust is the opposite of critical thinking. Stop using ad hominem, pro hominem, red herrings, straw men, appealing to confirmation bias, catering to emotional "need," and all the other fallacies we have been taught are "perfectly valid" debate habits. Recognize that even sound and honestly derived "conclusions" are just based on the currently available evidence. Those conclusions are not Truth, they are just the best we can do with what we have at the moment.
In short, stop believing you ever "know" the Truth. Only if you don't "know the truth" can you even look at evidence to the contrary in earnest. It is "knowing the truth" that locks us in The Matrix, because the evidence suggests that all of those "truths" have their root in one or another control mechanism of the Cabal.
By the path of letting go of needing to know the truth, and allowing ourselves to engage in honest debate, we, as a group, engage the Gestalt of Many Minds. This is the path out of The Matrix.
Open your mind and the rest will follow.
What is the difference between the 1949 and modern version?
I love the old movies.
And both starred Jimmy Stewart.
And both directed by Frank Capra
Mind blown! Such discernment! Three thumbs up!
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Well said. We watched it last night and I felt those same things throughout the movie. You articulated it very well.
Best evaluation of it I've ever read, thanks anon.
I'm an anon who could really go for a flaming rum punch tonight.
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Banks are the great evil.
The movie had a lot of ups and downs but that is why it resonates with so many people. That is life and never lose sight of the value of life and its impact on others.
Family and community has been degraded on purpose via psy ops.
Great analysis! These older movies show us distinctly the pychology of those who are anti-life. Another great one is Sound of Music. Where the family had to escape with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Over the highest mountains to come to America and live in peace and freedom. Now, years later we too have to make a stand to protect our families, faith and freedom!