On Facebook I always smile when someone has a "relationship status" that says it's complicated. I feel that could be the status update for just about everything.

"It's complicated" is the way I have always felt about the holiday staple movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." As recently as Thanksgiving, when like a religious ritual everyone settled on the pic, I quietly protested that it was not an "inspiring, lovely tale". I have found that in Holidays past my comments about the film being pretty downright depressing and very complicated were not exactly met with an eagerness to debate and discuss -- more like "drink your egg nog and chill out already!"

This year my obsession with injecting sardonic and depressing commentary to the film was aided by the timely and equally depressing state of the banks and how the film deals with such issues.

I was tickled red and green when I saw this piece in the NY Times -- finally someone agrees with me!