It's a Wonderful Life (Frank CAPRA, 1946) Part-1

—A short-lived creature lives in our age, unknown to past centuries. A person who came out of the cinema. The movie he saw did something to him. He is not a person who only cares about his own interests. He is at peace with people. It is hoped that he will do great things. But he dies in five to ten minutes. The street is full of people who did not leave the cinema; They draw him in and melt him with their sullen faces, indifference, and sneaky walks. I know the way to save these. Huge cinemas should be made. One day, all living things in the world should be included in them. Let them see a good movie. Let them all go out to the streets at once. The Idle Man-Yusuf Atılgan

These sentences in Yusuf Atılgan's work perhaps express a moment of happiness in the name of cinema. However, as we will see later, the intense feeling of reality that comes over the person takes away this last happiness. Unfortunately, this dreaminess that lies in all Capraesque films is too weak and powerless to spread to real life. As Kubrick said, Capra's films are quite good, but real life is not like that at all. The social justice, reality, or ideas aimed at increasing the value of human life that Thomas Moore mentions in his Utopia are too imaginary to be adapted to real life. Although a person experiences a momentary delirium, just like in these movies, it does not take long to realize it. In Capra's films, we can clearly see that this utopian cinema or this dream factory permeates every frame. The director's 1937 film Lost Horizon takes Moore's utopia and moves it to the country of China in the heart of the east.

Although there is obvious Christian propaganda in the film, it goes without saying that the individual who tries to spread the teachings of this religion has similar socialist intrigues. Hz. Jesus' teachings have a similar socialist perspective. The existence of such an unknown place, like an unknown mountain, provides people with some relief in terms of allowing people to live their lives in peace. Isn't this peaceful environment of heaven the only factor that makes people believe in God? However, today's people go to the cinema to get to know this paradise better. In fact, there is no need to climb mountains in China for that moment of peaceful life, nor is there any need to establish a utopian life system. Cinema already brings all those lost generations, heavens and peace to your doorstep.

Until the next movie you want to see or the next dream you want to fall asleep to. The problem is not the reality or imaginary expression in the cinema, the real problem is that this imaginary universe is transferred to the consciousness of people all over the world only under the name of 'American Dream'. That's why cinema or any kind of visuality that includes the visual field in general does nothing more than brainwashing people. The most effective way to invade a country is not to declare war on it with armies fighting like in history, but to create visual spaces for people by distorting reality. The movie A Wonderful Life is a movie of this kind that includes the 'American Dream' and can be called the milestone movie of this movement. In the movie, which is about the life of the main character, George Bailey (James Stewart), George is about to commit suicide.

However, a few angels who are watching this situation with seriousness in the space above do something that will change his decision instead of respecting his free will. They send him an angel without wings. And the angel tries to change his decision and fulfills George's wish to change his life, which we watch throughout the movie. ​