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Film · MGM · 1943

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Cabin in the Sky

55Watch it awake.

A wife's prayer and a bet on a gambler's soul, in a film the studio kept apart.

The review

MGM made this with an all-Black cast because the studio would not put these performers in the white musicals. That is the fact. The story under it is still a wife, a man, and a wager. A gambler is spared so heaven and hell can bet on his soul. His wife prays. Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong. A house can watch it. You should know the cast was kept out of the other musicals.

I liked the wife more than the bet. A prayer for a gambler is a marriage with something to do, not a pose. The wager turns a soul into a stake, which is a strange way to talk about a man changing, and the songs are why you stay. Armstrong and Horne are not visiting. They are the picture. The songs are real, and so is the rule that kept them out of the white musicals.

Journal

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

Hamilton

66 instead of 55

Hamilton is still a musical film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: Cabinet fights as moral arguments.

The eight

5
Industry
The gambler does not work; Waters, Horne, and Armstrong are the labor.
8
Household
His wife prays for him, and the marriage is the life under the wager.
7
Piety
A wife's prayer and a bet on his soul are what might stop the gambler.
5
Courage
Spared, he can still lose the soul heaven and hell are betting on.
4
Republic
MGM would not put Waters, Horne, or Armstrong into the white musicals.
5
Temperance
The bet on his soul matters only if the gambling can be put down.
6
Truth
The studio's separation is a fact, and the wager is a claim on his soul.
4
Stewardship
Audiences got a separate musical, not a share of the white ones.

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Avatar

55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

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A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

Journal

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