You Can't Take It with You

Irma 2022-01-12 08:01:05

Content retelling

The movie starts with the rich man Kirby buying a residential area but encounters a nail house. The members of this nail house enjoy themselves. Everyone has their own busy and interesting things. One of them fell in love with Kirby's son again, which created a delicate relationship between the two. In the end, with a happy ending, the contradiction between the two parties was resolved.

Experience

I can see some optimistic, positive and beautiful views that this movie wants to convey, but I can't feel it deeply.

Classic quotations

"He often said that people are dominated by fear, fear of what they eat and drink, fear of their job, future and health, and save and spend money. This is the result of business. It is the people in the advertisement that use Your fear sells you something that you don’t need at all."

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Extended Reading
  • Christina 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Frank Capra weaved a dream for America in 1938, which, though unrealistic, brought a lot of joy

  • Arjun 2022-03-22 09:02:28

    It's too idealistic to be happy~ I don't see the ballet and sit in the second-class seat in the park. The love story is vivid~

You Can't Take It with You quotes

  • Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: [offering grace] Well, Sir, here we are again. We've been getting along pretty good for quite a while now - we're certainly much obliged. Remember all we ask is just to go along the way we are, keep our health; as far as anything else is concerned, we leave that up to you. Thank you.

  • Alice Sycamore: Well Mr. Moody, what're you thinking about?

    Tony Kirby: Me? Eh... That family of yours - boy, they knocked me for a loop. I don't know, it just seems like in their own way, they found what everybody's looking for. People spend their whole lives building castles in the air and then nothing ever comes of it. I wonder why that is? Well, it takes courage. Everybody's afraid to live.

    Alice Sycamore: You ought to hear Grandpa on that subject. You know, he says most people nowadays are run by fear; Fear of what they eat, fear of what they drink, fear of their jobs, their future, fear of their health. They're scared to save money and scared to spend it. You know what his pet aversion is? The people who commercialize on fear: you know they scare you to death so they can sell you something you don't need. So, he kinda taught all of not to be afraid of anything, but do what we want to do. Well, it's kinda fun, anyway.

    Tony Kirby: Yeah, well that's it. Well that takes courage, especially that 'do what you want to do' department.