What I Saw in America: It's a Destructive Life

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What I Saw in America: It's a Destructive Life

Via Rod Dreher, who says, "it's like having Christmas with James Howard Kunstler": "A deep irony pervades the film at the moment of it joyous conclusion: as the developer of an antiseptic suburban subdivision, George Bailey is saved through the kinds of relationships nourished in his town that will be undermined and even precluded in the anomic community he builds as an adult."

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