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Film · Walt Disney · 2018

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Avengers: Infinity War

46Watch it awake.

They show up and lose. His theory is a massacre with a sentence attached.

The review

This is the Avengers night where they all show up and still lose. The snap is a man finishing an argument with a corpse count; the film knows he is wrong yet builds the whole evening toward his success so you feel the scale first as awe then as loss.

The fights and the honest failure are what work. Leave it on and a family sits through half of life wiped to prove a point, plus a daughter paid for a stone as climax. A teen can watch if you stay for the end; say a theory of what the world can afford is not a license to spend people. The next film does not make the people less gone.

Journal

Keep Avengers: Infinity War 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

Mad Max: Fury Road

59 instead of 46

Mad Max: Fury Road is still a action film, and it scores 59 instead of 46. What you gain is stewardship: What they bring back is the water, for the people at the bottom, not a new king's name.

The eight

5
Industry
Competence fills the fights, almost all spent on a war that feeds no house.
4
Household
A daughter is the price of a stone; that murder climaxes his quest.
3
Piety
Fate and stones stand in for conscience; almost no one stops for older duty.
7
Courage
They go knowing the odds, and the film lets them lose.
4
Republic
Only teams, no people; a universe is backdrop, not a country anyone keeps.
4
Temperance
The scale of dying is spectacle; the quiet after is the only restrained minute.
7
Truth
They fail, and a reasonable-sounding theory becomes reason to kill half a world.
3
Stewardship
Half of life is spent to prove a point; the film disagrees and still gives him the hour.

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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.