A splendid and moving film about the art of living and our contribution to making the lives of others more beautiful, this should be the purpose of every human being. George Balley, the protagonist, an honest and simple man who tries to help and do good and life will reward him by giving him a magnificent opportunity, which will make him see that the big problems he thought he had are actually insignificant, like a drop in the bucket. immensity of an ocean, if you compare it with all the good that he has sown in all those around him.
Perhaps we should reflect and consider how our presence in this world can benefit others. I am lucky to meet people who with their existence have contributed to making the lives of other people, including mine, more beautiful and full of success, wealth and health. Who would not like to become George Balley and be able to see how beautiful it is to live and the gift we have of turning the lives of others into something beautiful.
When our intention reconciles or cooperates with the Universal intention, then we become an expression of that good. This is what happens to the protagonist, George Balley (James Stewart) who is offered the opportunity to observe how the life of his hometown and its people would have passed, if he had never existed and how he influenced the life of all who, touched by their existence, made theirs a better existence. And in this puzzle that is life, we are all intertwined with each other to form something beyond and greater than ourselves.
Based on Philip Van Dore's work "The Greatest Gift", which in turn was inspired by Charles Dickens's "Christmas Carol", it is considered one of the best films in the history of cinema and the favorite of its own director. Frank Capra, who confessed that he screened it every Christmas for his family.
