Film · Columbia · 1961
Pass it on
A Raisin in the Sun
73Worth an evening.
Worth an evening. The check is not the prize. A house, and the man the son is going to be, are.
The review
A father dies and the insurance money arrives in an apartment that is too small for the people in it. The son wants to invest in a liquor store and become someone the check can make him. The mother wants a house. The sister wants a school. The daughter-in-law wants the marriage to survive the son's idea of himself. A man from the neighborhood they are moving into offers to pay them not to come. The offer is the country's sentence, and the film does not blur the man's politeness into innocence.
This is one of the few pictures of the decade I would clear a weeknight for without a hedge. Watch it as a family argument before you watch it as a document. Ask what the son thought the money was for, and what his mother knew it was for. The answers are a stature and a house. The film is on the side of the house, and it is right. Older children can sit through it. The yelling is the sound of people who are not done with each other.
Journal
Keep A Raisin in the Sun in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
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
It's a Wonderful Life
85 instead of 73
It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.
The eight
- 7Industry
The mother cleans other people's houses. The son drives. The work is not abstract.
- 9Household
Three generations in a small apartment are the subject, and each of them is a person.
- 6Piety
The mother's standard is the conscience of the picture, and it is not a speech from nowhere.
- 7Courage
She does the thing the neighborhood association is counting on a tired woman not to do.
- 7Republic
A house in a white neighborhood is the public fact, and the film does not treat it as a symbol only.
- 6Temperance
The son's scheme is the appetite. The mother will not let the scheme spend the family.
- 8Truth
A dream can be a lie if it costs the people in the room. The film makes him see the cost.
- 8Stewardship
A house inherits a mother who will not trade the family for a man's idea of stature.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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