The story takes place in a small town called Bedford Foss. At the age of 12, the male protagonist George caught a bad cold in order to save his younger brother Harry from the ice cave, causing deafness in his left ear.
There is a richest and most vile man in the town named Henry Potter. He controls most of the town. Many residents of the town rented in his apartments and were oppressed and bullied by him.
George works odd jobs in Daddy Gore’s pharmacy. He dreams of being an explorer. At the age of 12, he told the little girl Mary that one day he will go on an adventure, wanting wives and concubines, and begging three or four wives. But Mary said to his deaf left ear while he lowered his head to take things: George Bailey, I will love you to death.
Due to the death of his son, Father Gore was overwhelmed and in a trance. He poured poison into the capsule to treat Mrs. Brian’s son. George found out in time and informed Father Gore that he did not commit a major mistake. George promised Papa Gore that he would never tell anyone about it.
A few years later, George grew up. He finally saved enough money frugally and was ready to travel around the world. He was going to Italy, Baghdad, Samarkand, and he was going to university. He wanted to be 30 years old. Before becoming a millionaire, he was full of enthusiasm and ambition, he was going to explore the world! !
However, just before George made his trip, his father had a heart attack and died, and he had to give up traveling around the world. The directors of the "Bay Brothers House Loan Contract Company" founded by his father and Uncle Billy elected George as the new administrative secretary. If he does not take office, the company will be dissolved. George couldn’t bear to disband the company his father worked so hard to build, and he didn’t want the entire town’s residents to continue to be ruled by Potter, continue to live in slums, and continue to be oppressed by Potter, so George gave up going to college and saved himself. All his money was given to Harry, who went to college and became a football star in college.
George waited expectantly for Harry to graduate, hoping that he would return to take over the company after graduation, so that he could realize his dream of traveling around the world. However, Harry brought his wife back after graduation and had a promising job.
George married Mary who told him that he would love him to death when he was 12 years old. He said that he would lay down his damn job, take Mary to her honeymoon, go to New York for a week, and then go to Bermuda for a week. But on the day of the wedding, because of the company's problems, George and Mary took out the two thousand dollars spent on their honeymoon and distributed them to the residents of the town, and their honeymoon trip was also ruined.
George finally built a housing complex for the villagers: Bailey Court. More and more residents of the town have their own houses, and they no longer need to be oppressed by Potter, and Potter's rule of the town is gradually shrinking. Porter tried to use a high salary and going abroad to lure George to give up the company and work for him. George sternly refused, but this also shocked George, because he could not let his wife live in a better house, and could not buy her more beautiful ones. Clothes, and did not realize his dream of traveling around the world, George felt that he was really a loser.
World War II broke out. George was unable to serve as a soldier because of his left ear deafness. He became the guardian of the town, while Harry became a naval pilot and made great contributions.
On the day before Christmas, the news that the President personally awarded Harry the Medal of Honor was published in the newspaper. George bought a stack of newspapers and distributed it to everyone in the town to show them how great and outstanding his heroic brother is. On the same day, when the bank checker came to the company to check the accounts, Uncle Billy lost the company's eight thousand dollars due to carelessness. If they could not find the money, George and Uncle Billy were not only discredited, but faced various chases. Debt, but also go to jail.
George was very depressed. When he came home, he saw his beautiful wife, saw a few children, and saw the old house that leaked everywhere. He suddenly felt a lot of frustration. He felt that if he didn't have himself, maybe his wife and children could live a better life. If you don't have yourself, maybe the world will be better.
He ran to Potter for help, but was ridiculed by Potter, saying that he was a surly and failed young man, saying that he was more valuable than alive when he died.
George was defeated and desperate for himself, he ran to a bridge, wanting to die. At this time, the angel appeared, and George said to the angel, if he had never come to this world for a while, it would be fine, so that his relatives and friends would have a happier life. Therefore, the angel made his wish come true, turning the world into something like George had never appeared before.
George found that no one in this world knew him anymore, and the world without him had changed drastically.
Father Gore was sentenced to twenty years in prison for poisoning people with the wrong medicine. After he was released from prison, he became an old beggar and was bullied.
The Bay Brothers house loan contract company closed down many years ago.
Ernie, the driver, still lives in a small run-down house in Porter's slum, and his wife left him with her children three years ago because of poverty.
The home of George and Mary is still an abandoned and uninhabited dilapidated house.
George's mother became a surly old lady.
Uncle Billy was admitted to a mental hospital due to business failure.
Bailey Court does not exist at all, there is still a cemetery there.
Harry fell into the ice cave when he was 9 years old, and no one was rescued and died.
Mary has never been married and has become an old girl who is neither cute nor beautiful.
George finally realized his importance, and finally knew how much his friends and relatives needed him. He didn't want to die or disappear by himself. He wanted to return to the world where he existed, even if he went to jail.
However, he did not go to jail, because when the residents heard that George was in trouble and needed money, all the residents rushed to his house to donate money. They put all their savings out to help George, because they all had With George's help, they would be more unfortunate than today without George.
The angel completed the mission of saving George and returned to heaven, and George finally realized the meaning of his life.
I thought this film was about responsibility, but at the end I understood it. In fact, the whole film talks about love from beginning to end, kindness, selflessness, to be a good person, and desperate to insist on me as a human being.
Because of his kindness and responsibility, the actor George gave up his dreams time and time again. He hoped to be able to enter the world, but he never left that sloppy town in his life. He didn't accomplish any big business. He stuck to the small broken office his father left him all his life. He didn't become a millionaire. He was just a "loser" with a salary of dozens of yuan a month. He didn't have a tenacious will and lost thousands of dollars. He desperately wanted to commit suicide, but he was so beautiful, so beautiful that everyone loved him, and everyone would help him when he was in trouble!
When you encounter other people's neglect or bullying, you may wonder why God sometimes doesn't give good people back? In fact, God makes you a good person is the greatest reward. You may not enjoy more materially, but you will definitely receive less malice, abuse and curse from others, and you will definitely get more kindness and smiles. This is the return!
When you experience setbacks and failures, you may question the meaning of your own existence, but think about those people and things around you, what would they be like without you.
In our life, there may be a lot of helplessness and many things that cannot go as we wish, but even under such circumstances, we must believe that our existence has irreplaceable meaning. Everything we do is not in vain. We are very important!
Believe at all times that although you are as tiny as dust, you are extremely important.
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