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Film · 20th Century · 1950

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All About Eve

46Watch it awake.

The talk is a pleasure, and I still wouldn't let a kid study how Eve gets in.

The review

I laughed harder than I meant to, which is how I know the pleasure is the problem. A famous stage actress takes in a young woman who says she is her greatest fan. The young woman studies her, flatters the critic, and takes the life. The wit really is the fun. I had a good time with the talk and a sour feeling on the way to the car.

The household is mostly a marriage the ambition walks through. Adult, not a family night. It isn't cruel for sport, and it isn't kind. The fan's story is a lie, and the bill is a life that changes hands. Nobody is asked to stop wanting the next part. If you like theater people being exact, you'll recognize the fun. Recognize the theft too.

Journal

Keep All About Eve in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance 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

The Quiet Man

58 instead of 46

The Quiet Man is still a drama film, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is republic: A village with its own law.

The eight

8
Industry
The stage is the real job, and taking that work away is the plot.
4
Household
A marriage is there, and ambition treats it as a hallway.
4
Piety
Nothing in her stops the fan once the door has been opened.
5
Courage
The star risks the life she has by letting a stranger study it.
3
Republic
A critic and a company, and almost no duty past the theater.
3
Temperance
The sharp talk makes the climb enjoyable instead of cooling it.
7
Truth
She says she is a fan, and the bill is the life she takes.
3
Stewardship
A star is replaced, and the marriage is left walked through.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.