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Film · Paramount · 2016

13 Hours

Name: 13 Hours scores 43 — Live Historic
Item: 13 Hours
Rating: 43
Author: Live Historic

43Leave it.

A night, a compound, a political argument wearing a battle. Adults. Do not let the argument be settled by the gunfire.

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The review

On September 11, 2012, the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed, including the ambassador. The contractors at a nearby CIA annex fought through the night. That much a house should know. Michael Bay's film knows how to film a roof. It does not know how to handle a disputed record, and it does not try. Everyone who hesitates is a villain. Everyone who shoots is a truth-teller.

Adults, and even then I would rather they read two accounts than watch one bay of muzzle flash. If you do watch it, separate the bravery of the men on the annex from the brief the film is writing. Bravery is not a party. A dead ambassador is not a talking point. The film wants both of those sentences to be false. They are not.

Journal

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The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Covenant

63 instead of 43

The Covenant is still a war film, and it scores 63 instead of 43. What you gain is household: A wife and a child are why the interpreter cannot simply be brave in the abstract.

The eight

6
Industry
Security work is a job. The film is good at the geography of a compound and bad at everything political.
3
Household
Wives on a laptop. Home is a screen in a safe room.
2
Piety
No reverence. The team is the faith.
7
Courage
Staying on the roof is courage. The film is right about the length of the night.
4
Republic
A real failure of protection. The film turns the failure into a brief for one faction.
3
Temperance
Michael Bay films the tracer fire as beauty. That is the wrong eye.
5
Truth
The night happened. The meaning of the night is more contested than the movie can admit.
4
Stewardship
What it leaves is heat. Heat is not a finding.

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Film · New Line · 1998

American History X

43Leave it.

A warning about what a younger brother inherits. Not a dare, and not for a child.

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The review

The black-and-white past is a man making himself a weapon and calling it protection of his family. The color present is the same man trying to unteach a boy who learned the lesson perfectly. That structure is the moral fact. The curb, and the rest of the violence, is not a scene to describe to anyone who has not chosen this film as an adult. I will not describe it.

Adults only. Do not watch it to prove you can. Watch it, if you watch it, for the younger brother, and for the lateness of the apology. A house is downstream of the stories the oldest child believes. This film is what it looks like when those stories are a lie and the apology misses the boy by a day.

Journal

Keep American History X in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 43. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Dark Knight

60 instead of 43

The Dark Knight is still a drama film, and it scores 60 instead of 43. What you gain is industry: Dent works as a prosecutor; Gordon works as a cop; the mask is a second job.