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Film · France · 1945

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Children of Paradise

45Watch it awake.

A very long French love that never becomes a marriage, and the stage is the point.

The review

France treated this as a national event. Here it was an art-house picture, and it is very long. A mime on the Boulevard du Crime loves an actress who is also loved by other men, one of them a criminal. The theater is the world. The love is not a marriage. Adult. I would not put a child in front of it hoping for a couple who settle.

They shot it in occupied France, under the censor. I mention that because it is how the film got made, not because it excuses the romance. I got restless halfway and stayed for the mime, who is actually working. Nobody goes home to a family they are building. The crowd gets the boulevard, and the boulevard is what they came to sit in.

Journal

Keep Children of Paradise in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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The Quiet Man

58 instead of 45

The Quiet Man is still a drama film, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A marriage that has to be public to be real.

The eight

8
Industry
The mime and the actress live by the theater, and the theater is the work.
2
Household
The love is not a marriage, and no child is being raised in it.
3
Piety
No vow stops the men who want the actress, including the criminal.
5
Courage
Made under the censor, with a criminal standing inside the love story.
5
Republic
Occupied France supplies the censor; the boulevard is still a public.
3
Temperance
The same actress is wanted by a mime, other men, and a criminal.
5
Truth
Shot under the censor, so the boulevard could not say everything it meant.
5
Stewardship
France kept a national event; what remains is theater, not a home.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2018

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A Star Is Born

45Watch it awake.

Love is not a cure for a man who will not put the drink down. The film knows. It still asks you to ache for him.

The review

Ally has a gift and a job she is afraid to claim. Jackson has a gift he is spending to stay numb. The film sees both, and then it makes his death the door to her voice, which is an old lie about artists: that the ruin is the price of the true note. The true note was already there in the parking lot, before the ruin was asked to be meaningful.

Adults only. If you watch it, refuse the last alchemy. A person who kills himself is not a chord. Say that in the room so the song does not get the last word.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance 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.

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Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 45

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 45. What you gain is temperance: Sentiment is thick.