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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2010

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Black Swan

36Leave it.

The discipline is real. Perfection is the idol, and the film kneels with her. Adults.

Take controlThis scores 36. Black Swan cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Practice is not the villain. She has given herself to a hard craft, and the film respects the craft enough to show the feet. The villain is the idea that a person may be spent completely if the result is perfect. Her mother wanted a dancer in the house more than a daughter. The director wants the performance. She agrees.

Adults only. Do not watch it as a stylish breakdown to quote. If a young dancer in the house hears that perfection is this, say the plainer thing: the body is not raw material, and a role ends.

Journal

Keep Black Swan in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 36. 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

The Manchurian Candidate

46 instead of 36

The Manchurian Candidate is still a drama film, and it scores 46 instead of 36. What you gain is republic: An election is the public stake.

The eight

8
Industry
She trains past pain. The work of the body is the truest thing on screen.
2
Household
A mother keeps a closed house. There is no room in it for a grown daughter.
2
Piety
The art is the god. Nothing else is allowed to judge it.
6
Courage
She walks on a broken foot because the night is the night.
2
Republic
A company, a director, a rival. No city beyond the dressing room.
2
Temperance
The film wants the breakdown. It will not stop at the warning.
5
Truth
It tells the truth that a gift can be turned into a destruction.
2
Stewardship
What she leaves is a performance. She does not leave a self.

Where to watch

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Film · Prime Video · 2002

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Chicago

36Leave it.

The satire is sharp. The numbers make the murder glamorous, which is the accusation and the temptation. Adults.

Take controlThis scores 36. If you do not want Chicago in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

Roxie wants the stage more than she wants to be good, and the film does not lie about that want. Billy Flynn sells a jury the way he would sell a ticket. The merry murderesses are a chorus of women the city would rather watch than judge. That is a true picture of a public. It is also a picture so pleasurable that the public in your living room may join it.

Watch it for the cynicism, with adults who can hear the cynicism. If the room starts rooting for the acquittal as a happy ending, stop the disk and say the dull fact. She did it. The dance was the defense.

Journal

Keep Chicago in the record.