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Film · United Artists · 1977

A Bridge Too Far

Name: A Bridge Too Far scores 63 — Live Historic
Item: A Bridge Too Far
Rating: 63
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63Watch it awake.

Worth the evening for the cost of a vanity operation. It is a day of duty, and then it is a defeat.

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The review

Richard Attenborough's film is three hours because the operation was a chain, and a chain is the only way to see where it breaks. Paratroopers are dropped to take bridges in the Netherlands. The last bridge, Arnhem, is the one the armor does not reach in time. Radios fail. A road is a single road. Men hold a position because the plan says the armor is coming, and the plan is wrong.

Older teens and adults. You do not need to love a general to learn from this. Ask, at the end, which warning was already in the room before the first aircraft took off. A house that only watches victories will think courage is a guarantee. This film is the correction.

Journal

Keep A Bridge Too Far in the record.

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Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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

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Gettysburg

74 instead of 63

Gettysburg is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: The argument of the war is in the mouths of the officers, and it is not treated as embarrassment.

The eight

7
Industry
Staff work, drops, radios, and a bridge. The labor is the subject.
4
Household
Dutch families are in the street the army is using. They are not the plot, and the film at least sees them.
4
Piety
A chaplain, a prayer, a burial. Faith is present and not in charge.
8
Courage
Holding a bridge you were not reinforced for is the courage, and it is not rewarded.
6
Republic
Allied generals want a stroke that ends the war by autumn. The film is the bill for the want.
6
Temperance
The star cast is a temptation to watch faces. The operation is still the point.
8
Truth
It is a famous defeat, and the film does not restage it as a moral victory.
7
Stewardship
What it hands on is the price of a plan that could not hear the intelligence it disliked.

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Film · Columbia · 1966

Born Free

63Watch it awake.

Worth an evening for a child who can stand the parting. The love is the training to let go.

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The review

A game warden's wife raises an orphaned lion and the cub grows into an animal who cannot stay in the house. The work of the film is teaching her to hunt so they can let her go. The temptation, which the film understands, is to keep her as a proof of the bond. The bond is real. The bond is not a reason to make a lion into a pet that will fail the moment the people are gone. They do the harder thing.

A child old enough not to be destroyed by the parting can watch it. Tell them the parting is the point before you start if they are tender. Ask what the couple gave up by succeeding. The answer is the daily presence of the animal they love. A house that only knows stories in which love means keeping will fidget, and the fidget is useful. One of the cleaner family pictures of 1966, and quieter than the year's spectacles. The quiet is a couple doing a job for an animal that cannot thank them in a way they get to keep.

Journal

Keep Born Free in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

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The Yearling

75 instead of 63

The Yearling is still a family film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is household: A boy and the family around him have to choose between his fawn and their food.