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Film · Paramount · 1982

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An Officer and a Gentleman

75Worth an evening.

He does not get the uniform for free, and the woman is not a prize at the end.

The review

The drill instructor will wash him out. That threat is serious, and it sits on a selfish candidate at Navy aviation school who wants the place more than he wants the character. A local woman is in the story, and she is not a prize. Friends in the factory want the pilots as a way out. Those facts keep the romance from floating off into dress whites.

He has to become a person who would carry someone else. I would say that sentence in the car and let it stand. Adults, or older teens who can take a harsh teacher and a love story the same night. The uniform is the job. Carrying someone is the change. A poster would stop at the wings. This one does not.

Journal

Keep An Officer and a Gentleman in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 75

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 75. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.

The eight

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Industry
Aviation school is the job, a drill instructor can end it, and a factory waits outside.
7
Household
The local woman is not a prize, and he has to become a man who would carry someone.
7
Piety
The instructor is there to stop the selfishness, not to decorate a candidate.
8
Courage
He can be washed out. The harder risk is becoming the person who carries someone.
7
Republic
People in the factory want the pilots as a way out, so the uniform is a public hope.
8
Temperance
Selfishness is the flaw the school exists to break, and the woman is not the reward.
7
Truth
He starts selfish. The standard he has to meet is a person who would carry someone.
7
Stewardship
If the school works, what it leaves is a man other people can actually count on.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.