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Film · Merchant Ivory · 1986

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A Room with a View

58Watch it awake.

A light romance that still makes her choose the living man over the suitable one.

The review

A young woman is kissed in a Florentine field and goes home to a suitable fiancé. Manners are the comedy: how people sit, who may speak, which room is too good for a guest. A father and son give their view away rather than keep the dining-room rule. They don't clutch the better seat.

She has to choose the living man. The suitable one isn't wicked. He's just not alive to her in the way that counts. The trip is easy to like. What matters, if a young person is watching, is that a correct engagement can be the lie. The film stays light and still makes her decide. Don't clap for the furniture.

Journal

Keep A Room with a View in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry 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

Pride & Prejudice

70 instead of 58

Pride & Prejudice is still a romance film, and it scores 70 instead of 58. What you gain is industry: The women have no profession the age would allow.

The eight

3
Industry
No trade is practiced; the story runs on leisure, rooms, and an engagement.
7
Household
A fiancé, a father and son, and the marriage she has not made yet are the stakes.
6
Piety
She has to choose the living man, and the suitable fiancé is the life that only looks right.
6
Courage
She has to risk the approved engagement in order to take the living man.
4
Republic
The rule in force is the dining room, a class law about who sits where.
6
Temperance
One kiss starts it, and the film asks for a true choice rather than a next thrill.
8
Truth
A suitable fiancé can be a polite lie, and she is not allowed to keep both.
6
Stewardship
The room with a view is given up freely, and the inheritance is an honest match.

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Film · Columbia · 1959

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Anatomy of a Murder

58Watch it awake.

Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.

The review

A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.

Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.

Journal

Keep Anatomy of a Murder in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. 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?

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

Consider this

12 Angry Men

75 instead of 58

12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 58. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you the duty to be inconvenient.