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 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.