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Film · Prime Video · 1983

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A Christmas Story

53Watch it awake.

Keep it. Desire, a tangent-prone father, and a feast that survives the disaster.

The review

Ralphie's want is excessive and completely recognizable. The Old Man's pride in a hideous lamp is the adult version of the same excess, which is why the film is fair. The mother's management of both is the uncredited heroism. There is a meanness in a few of the jokes that a house can talk over. The Chinese Christmas dinner, when the turkey dies, is the scene that knows what a feast is: the people, relocated, still fed.

Watch it every year if you want. Skip any bit that is only a wince. Keep the pink bunny and the humility it requires.

Journal

Keep A Christmas Story in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

Back to the Future

65 instead of 53

Back to the Future is still a comedy film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is courage: George stands up.

The eight

5
Industry
A household kept through a holiday.
8
Household
Parents, a brother, a want.
3
Piety
Christmas as the setting more than the creed.
4
Courage
Little danger. Some social bravery.
4
Republic
A school, a bully, a neighborhood.
5
Temperance
Appetite is the joke and is gently corrected.
6
Truth
Childhood wanting is told truly.
7
Stewardship
The dinner that still happens is the heirloom.

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Film · Columbia · 1949

Pass it on

All the King's Men

53Watch it awake.

He gets the governorship to beat the crooks, then the power is the whole job.

The review

Don't hand me a real politician's name and call this a newsreel. It comes from a novel. A rural man rises to governor by saying he'll beat the corrupt. A reporter watches. I've heard that kind of speech across decades, so it plays in a living room without a chart next to it.

The power becomes the point. People are used. He becomes what he ran against. I'd watch it with older kids who are starting to love a fighter, and I wouldn't help them find a hero in the chair. The promise was the campaign. The people he spends are the bill.

Journal

Keep All the King's Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. 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.

Consider this

The Bridge on the River Kwai

64 instead of 53

The Bridge on the River Kwai is still a drama film, and it scores 64 instead of 53. What you gain is industry: He builds the bridge as a craft, and the craft is exactly the problem.