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Film · Warner Bros. · 1971

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A Clockwork Orange

35Leave it.

The cure is a theft, and the film still lingers on the crimes it claims to hate.

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The review

He is caught after leading beatings and rape, and the state calls what follows a cure. They condition him until the wish to do harm makes him sick. He can no longer choose. The film hates that cure, and on this one point I agree. Forced goodness is not goodness. A reflex is not a conscience. A man who cannot choose has not been restored to anything.

Do not give it the evening anyway. It shows the crimes, and plenty of people came for the showing. Adult. Leave the assaults undescribed, and do not dare a friend into the seat. The honest scrap is the bill on the treatment. Everything before that scrap dresses up the ruin. You can refuse the showing and still keep the point about choice.

Journal

Keep A Clockwork Orange in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Industry and Household and Courage 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.

Consider this

The Godfather Part II

46 instead of 35

The Godfather Part II is still a crime film, and it scores 46 instead of 35. What you gain is industry: An immigrant's labor, then a crime that calls itself a business.

The eight

3
Industry
The treatment is a procedure done to him, and that procedure is a harm.
2
Household
No spouse, parent, or child is the life this story is built around.
5
Piety
It asks if a man who cannot choose still has anything you could call conscience.
3
Courage
He suffers a treatment; he never risks something he loves for somebody else.
4
Republic
The law catches him, then takes his will instead of leaving him able to answer.
2
Temperance
The crimes are shown at length, and a lot of the audience came for that.
7
Truth
The cure is a lie with a bill: he complies only because he cannot choose.
2
Stewardship
Nothing worth keeping remains, only a man emptied out and the crimes shown.

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Film · MGM · 2015

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Spectre

35Leave it.

Brand maintenance with a funeral in it. The craft is professional. The reason is thin.

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The review

There is a real public question under the tux: who watches the watchers when every camera is one system. The film picks the question up and sets it down for a childhood grievance that makes a franchise feel like a family saga. It is not a family saga. It is a product arranging its villains into one line.

Adults who like the craft can see the craft. Do not call it serious because it is gloomy. Gloom is cheap. The question about the cameras was the part worth keeping, and they spent it.

Journal

Keep Spectre in the record.