Two little Hitlers

It's a Wonderful Life

(1946)

Had an epiphany while watching this this year. You know how unfair to George it has always seemed that Mary literally preempts his wish from coming true (I wouldn't want to blame her for Peter Bailey's stroke, exactly, but the timing is suspicious, and the end result is unequivocal), and that she generally takes it upon herself to know what George really wants, since he clearly can't be trusted to get it right?

Well, I realized this time that it's straightforward karmic retribution: it's George who first overrides Mary's self-determination by putting coconut on her ice cream after she has unambiguously declared that she doesn't like coconut and doesn't want coconut. Hey, George: the payback is a motherfucker.