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Film · Soviet Union · 1925

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Battleship Potemkin

31Leave it.

It's a sermon for a mutiny, not a record of a free town, and I won't pretend otherwise.

Take controlThis scores 31. Battleship Potemkin cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Bedtime was already gone when the steps started, and I still wouldn't file this under history. Sailors refuse rotten meat. The city answers. A baby carriage is the image everybody knows. Eisenstein made it in 1925 as a sermon for a revolution, not an American crowd picture and not a portrait of a free town. A teen can sit through it. I wouldn't put it on for a younger kid and leave the room.

I'm not replaying the bodies. What the film wants is the uprising. Bad rations become a case for mutiny, and the cutting carries that case. Famous shots don't make it neutral. If it plays here, somebody says that before the lights come up. The ship is not a civics lesson that happens to be well photographed.

Journal

Keep Battleship Potemkin in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

American Sniper

49 instead of 31

American Sniper is still a drama film, and it scores 49 instead of 31. What you gain is household: A marriage frays on the phone.

The eight

5
Industry
Sailors refuse rotten meat aboard a warship, so the ration is the grievance.
2
Household
A baby carriage is the public image, not a parent raising a child.
2
Piety
The refusal is steered into mutiny, not a conscience that stops the act.
6
Courage
They refuse the meat and risk the uprising that follows on the ship.
3
Republic
It argues for revolt, and Eisenstein does not show a free town.
2
Temperance
The steps train the want for the next uprising instead of checking it.
3
Truth
A 1925 sermon for revolution, not a neutral record of the sailors.
2
Stewardship
After the ship and the steps, it leaves a case for more uprising.

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Film · Prime Video · 2026

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Buddy

31Leave it.

A mascot is not a companion. Wait for a story before you clear a Saturday.

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The review

The poster is a face designed to be kept. Films like this sometimes hide a real loneliness under the plush, and sometimes they are only the plush. The desk cannot see which from the tile, and will not invent a lesson the marketing department did not bother to print.

If you play it, watch the adult in the frame. A story where a creature teaches a man to stay is worth a conversation. A story where the toy is the point is an advertisement. You do not owe an advertisement your evening.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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

Goosebumps

54 instead of 41

Goosebumps is still a horror film, and it scores 54 instead of 41. What you gain is temperance: Meddling is how it starts.