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Film · Biograph · 1909

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A Corner in Wheat

51Watch it awake.

A wheat corner, a bread line, a fall into the grain, and then the reel is over.

The review

A tycoon corners wheat. A bread line forms. He falls into his own grain. Griffith, Biograph, 1909, a reel a house can watch. The bread is the cost of the corner. I didn't need a speech after supper to understand a line of people. The fall is the public ending. The reel already spent it.

I won't stretch a short into a treatise on every market. One man ties up the grain, people wait for bread, and the grain takes him. It is not a feature. If you watch it this week, price a loaf in your kitchen and let that be the conversation. Old doesn't make the line less plain. I shut it off when he fell. That was the ending they meant.

Journal

Keep A Corner in Wheat in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage 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

Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 51

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is courage: She gets on the stage, and she stays in the hard room at home.

The eight

6
Industry
Cornering wheat is the work, and the bread line is what it does.
4
Household
The bread line is households waiting on grain one man tied up.
3
Piety
Nobody's conscience stops the corner; the fall is a physical end.
2
Courage
No one risks a life they would miss except the man who falls in.
8
Republic
A corner in the market leaves people standing in line for bread.
7
Temperance
The want to corner the market is answered when he falls into the grain.
8
Truth
The bread is the cost of the corner, and the fall makes that public.
3
Stewardship
People are left in a bread line while he falls into his own grain.

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Barbie in the Nutcracker

51Watch it awake.

A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.

The review

Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.

It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.

Journal

Keep Barbie in the Nutcracker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic 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

Room on the Broom

66 instead of 51

Room on the Broom is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: The broom is a tool.