Great message for girls who watch this film
No matter how attractive, intelligent and outgoing a woman is, without a husband, she will end up as a lonely, withdrawn recluse.
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That didn't have anything to do with her being a woman, it had to do with her personality in particular.
How do you like them apples?
Let me fix that for you:
No matter how attractive, intelligent, and outgoing a woman is, if she doesn't meet her soulmate, she will develop myopia and require glasses.
That was actually hilarious and even though we all loved the film -that scene was ridiculous!!!
"No matter how attractive, intelligent, and outgoing a woman is, if she doesn't meet her soulmate, she will develop myopia and require glasses."
I think it's the other way around. In real life it was, for me at least. I developed myopia and first wore glasses at 12. Soulmate? I'm 66 now and I never got that far. 😢
They play this movie at a theater in my city during the holidays, and the audience's reaction to the part about her becoming a librarian who never marries is always greeted with uproarious laughter: "that's a BAD thing?" A think a lot of people would prefer that to being married to a savings and loan manager and having several little hellions.
The sky is blue
Well, except for Violet. She didn't seem lonely or reclusive.
Oh and Annie. She had a life and didn't seem lonely at all.
When I first watched the movie, I expected Mary to be in an unhappy marriage to Sam Wainwright. George would see her wearing beautiful clothes, taking fancy vacations, maybe having a nanny to watch the children but she's not the happy woman George loves because she doesn't love Sam.
Mary has very few lines but she doesn't seem unhappy or reclusive. If someone saw me leaving work, you'd bet I'd look like a recluse. I get in my car and drive home.
Lizzie
To love another person is to see the face of God! - Les Miserables
This film was made in 1946 let's remember...
shareI think there are a few reasons that Mary is shown this way when Clarence is showing George what life is like without him.
1: Frank Capra probably did this to show how stark the contrast is between a world without George VS with George. Remember, Mary isn't the only one whose persona is radically different in the world without George.
2: In the bizarro, alternate universe being shown to George where he never existed, everything is extreme. Pottersville is a sleazy, mini Las Vegas filled with drunks, hopeless people, violence, and greed. It's a byproduct of the very seeds Mr. Potter had sown. Mary only wanted George in the real world. It's safe to assume that she chose to withdraw after so many bad experiences not being able to find a good man, preferring her own company to the alternative of trying to find a worthy suitor in that cesspool.
3: While the glasses were a bit much, it doesn't seem to me that Mary becoming more introverted as she got older was such a stretch. Earlier in the film, George questions her as to why she left New York. She tells him that she just visited a couple of times but got homesick. Her family was in Bedford Falls, and the home she wished for was there. She wasn't a woman of the world. In the alternate universe, her dream of moving into that old house is never realized, not having ever found someone worthy of having a family with, or to inspire her to ever move beyond the dream stage of restoring that old home. Instead, she watched the town she loved devolve into a place where dreams go to die. But, like so many in real life who get trapped in their comfort zones, she might have been miserable, but it was the Devil she knew.
You're such a mess, the train wreck stops to watch you!
Jesus Christmas every time I turn around some cranky sour puss is trying to push their political or social agenda onto this film.
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