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Film · United Artists · 1977

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Annie Hall

51Watch it awake.

The love was real, it ended, and the jokes were how he hid from that.

The review

He tells you the romance didn't last, and he tells the camera, because the jokes are how he hides. She outgrows him. It's a New York story on the side of a love that can be real and still end. Nobody owes you a reunion. If you're waiting for one, you're fighting the movie.

Adult, and it doesn't punish her for getting larger than his bit. That's the decent thing in it. The talk is specific enough that some of it stays on those streets, and that's fine. Watch it when you want an ending that isn't treated as a waste. It won't make the funny person the hero of the breakup. She gets out from under the anecdote. Let her.

Journal

Keep Annie Hall in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Princess Bride

64 instead of 51

The Princess Bride is still a comedy film, and it scores 64 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: A corrupt prince, laughed at and defeated.

The eight

5
Industry
He works as a comedian, and the jokes are the tool he uses to dodge the room.
6
Household
Two people make a real romance, and the film lets it end without a trick.
4
Piety
Nobody is stopped by a scruple; the moral fact is simply that she may leave.
6
Courage
She risks the romance by outgrowing it, and he risks telling it to the camera.
2
Republic
It is a private love in one city, with almost nothing owed to any public.
5
Temperance
The jokes keep grabbing the last word, and eventually the film takes it back.
8
Truth
He admits the romance ended, so the defense does not get to rewrite the loss.
5
Stewardship
What remains is the telling: an ended love that is still allowed to have been love.

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Film · Prime Video · 2001

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Barbie in the Nutcracker

51Watch it awake.

A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.

The review

Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.

It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.

Journal

Keep Barbie in the Nutcracker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic 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

Room on the Broom

66 instead of 51

Room on the Broom is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: The broom is a tool.