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Film · MGM · 1926

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Battling Butler

49Watch it awake.

He let her think he was a fighter, and the lie scheduled a real match.

The review

Soft living is the joke, and then it isn't. A rich camper lets a woman think he is a prizefighter, and he has to train because the lie grew a match. Buster Keaton, 1926. The fight is the bill for the boast. I watched it half asleep, and the bill still arrived. A house can watch it. Nobody makes a speech about honesty. The match is the speech.

I have told smaller versions of that lie, borrowing a skill I don't have because someone was listening. It stays funny while he is only pampered. The training makes it fair. He does not get to keep the soft life and the woman's belief. I wanted the boast to stay cheap. It doesn't. That is why I would show it to an older kid who talks big.

Journal

Keep Battling Butler in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Secondhand Lions

61 instead of 49

Secondhand Lions is still a comedy film, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is household: Uncles who accept a charge they did not ask for.

The eight

6
Industry
The soft life ends when he has to train for a real match.
4
Household
A woman believes the boast; she is a courtship, not a home yet.
3
Piety
Nothing in him stops the boast; the match arrives as the bill.
7
Courage
He enters the fight his own story invented, and the ease is gone.
2
Republic
A private boast and a boxing match, not a duty to a town.
5
Temperance
Comfort is the joke, and training is the work the boast skipped.
8
Truth
The lie grew a match, so the boast comes due in the ring.
4
Stewardship
He may keep the woman; nobody else is left any better off.

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American Sniper

49Watch it awake.

The skill is not the same thing as the war. Adults. The wife is the witness. Watch awake.

The review

A shepherd of men, in his own mind, looks through a scope and has to decide what a child in the street is holding. Those seconds are the serious part. The film is often more comfortable on the roof than in the kitchen, and the people on the other end of the shot are rarely given a kitchen at all.

Adults. Do not put it on as a recruitment poster or as a debunking. If you watch it, stay for the grocery store, where a man who was decisive cannot be. Ask what a country owes the person it trained to do this, and what it owes the rooms it never filmed.

Journal

Keep American Sniper in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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.

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The Patriot

59 instead of 49

The Patriot is still a war film, and it scores 59 instead of 49. What you gain is household: He fights because they took his children, not because of a speech.