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Film · MGM · 1959

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Ben-Hur

70Worth an evening.

The race is the poster. The mercy at the end is the point, and it costs him the revenge.

The review

People remember the chariot. The story is a prince in Judea who will not inform on his own people, and a Roman friend who sends him to the galleys for it. Years pass. His mother and sister are thrown in a prison he does not know about. The race is the moment the empire lets him be spectacular. It is not the healing.

I will not treat the ending as a decoration on the action. He has wanted the man who betrayed him destroyed, and the film does not give him that satisfaction as the meaning. What he is asked to put down is the revenge. The spectacle is real and it is enormous. It is not the inheritance. Sit with the last movement, not with the horses, and do not hand a child the race as if the race were the faith.

Journal

Keep Ben-Hur in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 70

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 70. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.

The eight

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Industry
The galley and the race are work, and he survives by rowing, not by a speech.
6
Household
His mother and sister are still the household he is trying to get back to.
9
Piety
The story turns when revenge is not the last word he is willing to live by.
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Courage
He rows, he races, and he walks back into a house that Rome has ruined.
6
Republic
Rome is the power. He is a subject who will not stay a useful slave.
5
Temperance
The revenge is long, and the film lets you feel how long before it breaks.
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Truth
A miracle is not used to skip the years in the galley or the wreck of his house.
7
Stewardship
A house inherits the mercy, not a license to love the chariot for its own sake.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013

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12 Years a Slave

70Worth an evening.

Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.

The review

Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.

Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.

Journal

Keep 12 Years a Slave in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

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Cabrini

83 instead of 70

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.