Thursday, December 15, 2011

How is it someone hasn't made a dark comedy that turns "It's A Wonderful Life" on its head? An insufferably self-satisfied, wealthy, successful man who is one of life's takers, who abuses and mistreats others but thinks he's God's gift to the world finds out, with help from an angel, how much better everyone's life would have been had he never existed. His wife would have married better, her children well-adjusted, better looking and higher-achieving than the ones he had with her. Everyone who encounters him is happier without him in their lives, from the barista he berates at the coffee shop for too much soy milk in his latte to the employees he brutalizes daily. It ends with him contemplating living on, but the angel convinces him to end it all.

What? Look, I warned you it was a dark comedy.

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