Not sure we need anymore It’s A Wonderful Life discourse but I’ve seen a couple of professional critics in my timeline completely misunderstanding the point of the film so I feel I must intervene for the sake of reason.
Yes, It’s A Wonderful Life ends with Potter getting away with stealing $8000 and with George still trapped in a town he wanted to leave.
But that’s kind of the point, once you realise the film is about depression, and how depression works.
Imagine you wrote down your life, with all the good things in the pro column and the bad things in the con column. When you have depression you only see the ‘con’ column. The 'pro' column is occluded.
Tonight's SF classic. (It's on Channel 5 right now). Has Jim Sturgess in it which is a mark of quality.
I am going to need to be slightly drunk to enjoy this.
Would be funny to think the whole caravan park is home to grizzled, alcoholic ex-cops, spies, astronauts and scientists who keep getting called back for one last job. The Goldblum Park.
Tonight's SF classic. I've seen it before but not in this century.
I love that Spielberg ignores the 'rules' of screenwriting. 15 mins in and we finally see the protagonist. Plus of course it sets up mysteries which never get resolved.
Those three spaceships couldn't be more disco if they were being driven by the Bee Gees.
Okay. While proof-reading my article about Cybermen in the latest @dwmtweets, a thought occurred to me. Which was, "Actually, why do the Cybermen in The Moonbase recognise the Doctor?" (They say 'You are known to us').
Because not only did the Doctor look very different then, all the only Cybermen who met him were completely destroyed, along with all the other Cybermen in the story, and their roaming home planet, Mondas.
There's a sort-of explanation in Tomb of the Cybermen, where the Cyberleader says their 'history computer' has full details of the Doctor, who they believe 'destroyed our first planet'. But - here's the thing - he DIDN'T destroy Mondas.