Connections

I think that Geoffrey Hill made some good connections between It's a Wonderful Life and the Bible, like the names of George and Mary and the temptations George had to go through in the movie. But I also think that he was looking for connections to the movie and the Bible way too hard to try to find some type of religious view.

I mean if you really look hard, yeah I guess you can find what you are looking for, but that’s doesn’t mean it’s going to be good.

Look at the connections Hill made when George fell through the floor into the pool at the school dance. I don’t’ really see how George Bailey falling in to the pool is anything like Moses leading his people to the Promise Land. I can’t even see how the floor opening to the pool has any connection with the dividing of the Red Sea. I guess, I could, maybe see a connection with George never making it to his own promised land (seeing the world) as his divine calling to deliver the residents of a potential Pottersville into a “promised land”. Though it’s still a stretch for me.

Did anyone else find some of the connections Hill made to be a stretch?   

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

~Edwidge Danticat