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Film · Columbia · 2001

Black Hawk Down

Name: Black Hawk Down scores 46 — Live Historic
Item: Black Hawk Down
Rating: 46
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46Watch it awake.

The loyalty is real. The politics of the day are thin. Adults. Do not watch it as a game.

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The review

Ridley Scott films the Battle of Mogadishu as a night that will not end. The target was lieutenants of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Two Black Hawks fall. Men who trained for a raid spend the dark trying to reach their own. The courage of that reaching is the part I will not take away from them. The film's limit is severe: a city of people is photographed as terrain.

Adults, and not as a treat. If a teenager sees it, he does not get to leave the room until someone has said that the Somali dead are not scenery, and that a firefight can be both an act of loyalty and a failure of policy. Hold both. The film holds only one, and a house has to supply the other.

Journal

Keep Black Hawk Down 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.

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The Outpost

54 instead of 46

The Outpost is still a war film, and it scores 54 instead of 46. What you gain is household: Home is a phone call.

The eight

7
Industry
Rangers and pilots have a procedure. The film is what happens when the procedure loses a helicopter.
3
Household
The unit is everything. Somali lives are mostly a blur, and that is the film's failure of household.
2
Piety
No room for reverence. The film trusts adrenaline.
8
Courage
Men go back into the street for a pilot. That courage is specific and it is not fake.
4
Republic
Why the United States was in Mogadishu is a caption. The night is the movie.
3
Temperance
The battle is the entertainment. Skillful, and that skill is the temptation.
6
Truth
The event is real. The film's eye is not equally real about everyone in the street.
4
Stewardship
What it leaves a young man is often the wrong half: the rush, not the bill.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1933

42nd Street

46Watch it awake.

The rehearsal is real work, and Berkeley still turns the girls into a pattern.

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The review

Start with the sick man, not the pattern. A Broadway director is ill, a chorus girl has to go on, and the show must not close. Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warner Baxter. The rehearsal is the work. This is the picture that announced the Warner chorus line, a hit in the year King Kong led. I believed the rehearsal more than the fame.

Busby Berkeley turns the girls into a pattern. The bodies are the machine. A house can watch it, and you can say that without sneering at the dancers' job. The job is real. The pattern is the sell. Opening night is a grind. A person is not a shape you repeat until the song ends.

Journal

Keep 42nd Street in the record.