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Film · MGM · 1936

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After the Thin Man

39Leave it.

Same fond marriage, same drinks, and another corpse used as the excuse.

Take controlThis scores 39. After the Thin Man cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Home to San Francisco, a family that disapproves of him, and a relative murdered. New Year's, another corpse. Powell and Loy again, in a sequel that was a hit of its own. The marriage is still the reason to stay. A house can watch it. I came for them, and the drinks had simply changed cities.

The drinking continues. The case is another excuse. A family's dislike of him does not become the story, and neither does the dead relative. I don't need a second mystery to know why these two are pleasant company. I also don't need the sequel's permission to keep pouring. One night of this habit was already enough.

Journal

Keep After the Thin Man in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety 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

Knives Out

61 instead of 39

Knives Out is still a comedy film, and it scores 61 instead of 39. What you gain is temperance: The comedy is sharp and it is aimed at greed, not at the weak.

The eight

3
Industry
The case is another excuse, so detecting is not the work that matters.
8
Household
The marriage is why you stay, inside a family that disapproves of him.
3
Piety
A family's disapproval never stops the drinking that continues here.
3
Courage
Going home to people who disapprove is the only risk in it.
4
Republic
A relative is murdered, and the case is still treated as an excuse.
1
Temperance
It is New Year's, and the drinking continues with no one stopping.
5
Truth
The marriage holds, while the murder stays a puzzle they do not need.
4
Stewardship
You leave with the same marriage and the same unfinished drinking.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.