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Film · Biograph · 1912

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An Unseen Enemy

35Leave it.

Two girls, a burglar, and a gun through the wall, and I won't laugh that off.

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The review

Lillian and Dorothy Gish start here, both of them, in one Biograph reel from 1912. Two sisters are alone. A thief is in the house. A gun comes through a hole in the wall. I kept thinking how little a short reel helps if you are one of the two in that house.

A house can watch it. I'd still say, before anyone grins, that they are girls in a house with a burglar. Don't treat the gun as a joke. There isn't a next chapter to buy. It ends when the reel ends, and the scare was the reason to put it on.

Journal

Keep An Unseen Enemy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 35. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Truth 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

Get Out

46 instead of 35

Get Out is still a thriller film, and it scores 46 instead of 35. What you gain is truth: Everyone tells him he is imagining it.

The eight

2
Industry
No one is shown at a living; the thief's errand is the reel.
6
Household
Two sisters are alone in the house a burglar has already entered.
2
Piety
Nothing in the reel shows a conscience stopping the thief.
4
Courage
Two girls share the house with a burglar and a gun at the wall.
3
Republic
A burglar against a private house is the only public fact on offer.
5
Temperance
One reel of fear, not a chapter that sells you the next peril.
3
Truth
No promise is tested; the threat through the wall is simply there.
3
Stewardship
When the reel ends, the house has been a scare and not a kept home.

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Film · MGM · 2015

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Spectre

35Leave it.

Brand maintenance with a funeral in it. The craft is professional. The reason is thin.

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The review

There is a real public question under the tux: who watches the watchers when every camera is one system. The film picks the question up and sets it down for a childhood grievance that makes a franchise feel like a family saga. It is not a family saga. It is a product arranging its villains into one line.

Adults who like the craft can see the craft. Do not call it serious because it is gloomy. Gloom is cheap. The question about the cameras was the part worth keeping, and they spent it.

Journal

Keep Spectre in the record.