A classic I hadn’t seen.
What is with my irrational irritableness when confronted with Jimmie Stewart (particularly his voice and vocal rhythms)? Frank Capra’s paean to democracy despite the brutal foibles of humanity seems grotesquely over-simplified, unless one takes things lightly, but the movie’s issues are hard to take lightly, corruption in a democracy seeming such a serious issue. I read that Sturges The Great McGinty was a cynical response to/parody of this movie, and as such I sympathize with it.
I was/am going through a curmudgeonly phase.
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