Film · Columbia · 1949
Pass it on
All the King's Men
53Watch it awake.
He gets the governorship to beat the crooks, then the power is the whole job.
The review
Don't hand me a real politician's name and call this a newsreel. It comes from a novel. A rural man rises to governor by saying he'll beat the corrupt. A reporter watches. I've heard that kind of speech across decades, so it plays in a living room without a chart next to it.
The power becomes the point. People are used. He becomes what he ran against. I'd watch it with older kids who are starting to love a fighter, and I wouldn't help them find a hero in the chair. The promise was the campaign. The people he spends are the bill.
Journal
Keep All the King's Men in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety 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 Bridge on the River Kwai
64 instead of 53
The Bridge on the River Kwai is still a drama film, and it scores 64 instead of 53. What you gain is industry: He builds the bridge as a craft, and the craft is exactly the problem.
The eight
- 6Industry
A reporter watches, and the other man's work becomes the governor's office.
- 4Household
People are used, and no marriage or child is the life the rise is about.
- 3Piety
Nothing in him stops once the purpose is gone and the power is the point.
- 5Courage
The first risk was real, and he spends it on staying in the chair.
- 8Republic
He owed the people a fight with the corrupt, then became that thing.
- 5Temperance
Power becomes the point, and he turns into what he ran against.
- 8Truth
The promise was to beat the corrupt, and the promise fails in him.
- 3Stewardship
People are used, and the state is left holding the problem it elected.
Where to watch
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