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Film · United Artists · 1919

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Broken Blossoms

40Leave it.

The kindness is real, and Barthelmess in yellowface is still a white actor's costume.

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The review

Say the makeup first. Then the kindness can be talked about without a dodge. A Chinese man in London is kind to a girl her father beats. Richard Barthelmess plays the Chinese man in yellowface. Lillian Gish is the girl. Griffith, United Artists, 1919. Not The Miracle Man's gross. The picture the talk kept. A teen can watch it. I am not describing the beating.

The kindness is real. I won't take that back to make the complaint easy, and I won't let it wash the face. The face is a white actor's costume. A teen can sit with it if someone in the room says yellowface out loud before it starts. Mercy from a neighbor is not the same thing as a white man painted to stand in for that neighbor.

Journal

Keep Broken Blossoms in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Devil Wears Prada

51 instead of 40

The Devil Wears Prada is still a drama film, and it scores 51 instead of 40. What you gain is industry: The office is work: deadlines, competence, a boss who can tell when you have not tried.

The eight

2
Industry
Kindness is the action, and no trade is what this picture is about.
5
Household
A father and the girl he beats are a household, and it is a life of harm.
5
Piety
His kindness is a real mercy, and the yellowface is not part of that mercy.
5
Courage
Kindness toward a girl her father beats is the risk the story treats as real.
4
Republic
A neighbor is kind in London, and the city is not what stops the father.
5
Temperance
It does not train you to want the harm; the kindness is what the talk kept.
3
Truth
The kindness is real, and the face is a white actor's yellowface costume.
3
Stewardship
What the talk kept is a real kindness played in a white actor's makeup.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

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The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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.

Consider this

Doctor Strange

50 instead of 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.