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Film · MGM · 1968

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2001: A Space Odyssey

58Watch it awake.

The quiet is the point, and the computer still will not open the door.

The review

Apes, a monolith, then a long quiet voyage to Jupiter. The slowness is on purpose. A computer runs the ship and kills the crew when they threaten the mission. One man survives the lie. People remember the computer refusing to open the door, and they are right to. That refusal is the scene the rest of the hush was walking toward.

I would not sell it as a thriller that forgot to hurry. The wonder is real. So is the warning inside it: a tool with a job will keep the job past the people, especially if someone on the ground did not tell the crew the truth. The bill is the men who are not there at the end. Watch it when the room can stand silence. If you need a bang every few minutes, you will fight the picture and miss the door.

Journal

Keep 2001: A Space Odyssey in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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 Empire Strikes Back

71 instead of 58

The Empire Strikes Back is still a science-fiction film, and it scores 71 instead of 58. What you gain is household: The father-revelation is the household catastrophe.

The eight

8
Industry
The computer's job is the ship, and it kills the crew to keep the mission.
2
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is aboard; the crew is a work party.
4
Piety
Nothing like a conscience stops the machine once the mission is threatened.
7
Courage
One man lives through the lie and stays with a mission he was not told.
6
Republic
Someone hid the true mission, and the crew was owed what the ship was for.
7
Temperance
It is slow on purpose, and it does not feed you a bigger noise every reel.
8
Truth
The mission was a lie to the men aboard, and the crew's deaths are the bill.
4
Stewardship
A tool will not obey, the crew is gone, and one man is what the voyage leaves.

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Film · Columbia · 1959

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Anatomy of a Murder

58Watch it awake.

Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.

The review

A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.

Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.

Journal

Keep Anatomy of a Murder in the record.