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Film · Focus · 2005

Brokeback Mountain

Name: Brokeback Mountain scores 36 — Live Historic
Item: Brokeback Mountain
Rating: 36
Author: Live Historic

36Leave it.

A serious film about a hidden life and the houses it costs. The wives and the daughters are not a backdrop.

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The review

The mountain is beautiful and the beauty is how the film argues. Look at the kitchens instead. Two women marry men who will not be husbands, and the film is decent enough to let their humiliation be real. A love that requires a lie in a child's house is not a clean tragedy, even when the men are lonely and the world is hard on them. Both of those are also true.

Adults. Do not use it as a test of who is kind. The charge is narrower: a vow is a house, and a house with a child in it cannot be the scenery of someone else's secret. Loneliness is not nothing. It is also not a permission.

Journal

Keep Brokeback Mountain 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 Courage 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 Perks of Being a Wallflower

48 instead of 36

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is still a drama film, and it scores 48 instead of 36. What you gain is household: Friends who make a place.

The eight

6
Industry
They work. The mountain job ends, and the rest of life is ranching, sales, and getting by.
2
Household
Marriages are entered and then starved. The children live inside the lie.
2
Piety
No creed that can bless this. The shame is real and is not the same thing as wisdom.
4
Courage
They are brave toward each other in private and cowards toward the people they vowed to.
3
Republic
A small town's cruelty is real. So is the debt they owe the town's children, who are theirs.
3
Temperance
Secrecy becomes the shape of a life. The film is honest that the secrecy rots the rooms around it.
7
Truth
It does not pretend the marriages are fine. The shirts at the end are not a defense.
2
Stewardship
What is handed to the daughters is absence and a story they were not told.

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Film · United Artists · 1956

Around the World in 80 Days

36Leave it.

Best picture for a timetable and a tour, not because anyone had to change.

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The review

Best picture, and a close second to the biblical pageant once both runs are counted. That is a fact about tickets. A man and his valet bet they can circle the globe in eighty days. Cameos, a balloon, trains, a ship. The pleasure is the tour. A romance is added to the trip. I had a pleasant time, and nobody on screen had to become a different person to get there.

The world goes by as a timetable he means to keep. That promise is more than a lot of light films bother with. It is still a tour. If you wanted a household, you get a valet and a gentleman who would rather win a clock. Put it on when you are tired and want motion. Skip it if you wanted the places to matter as more than stops.

Journal

Keep Around the World in 80 Days in the record.