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Film · Paramount · 1974

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Chinatown

54Watch it awake.

The small case is a cover, and the city does not get saved.

The review

He is hired for adultery. The crime underneath is water. A private detective in 1930s Los Angeles follows a small job into who owns the supply. A woman is trying to protect someone. The powerful man is her father. Adult. Do not describe the abuse. The last line is that the city does not get saved.

I would not treat that ending as a clever chill to repeat at dinner. The detective does the work. The work is not enough. She is not a device, and the water is not a family secret. The picture will not give you a rescue. That refusal is why it is serious, and why a casual night is the wrong night. Do not let the last line be the only sentence anyone keeps. The water is the crime the city lives with.

Journal

Keep Chinatown in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety 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.

Consider this

The Shawshank Redemption

65 instead of 54

The Shawshank Redemption is still a crime film, and it scores 65 instead of 54. What you gain is stewardship: He leaves a way out for a friend.

The eight

7
Industry
Detective work turns a petty adultery job into the question of who owns the water.
5
Household
A woman is protecting someone, and her father is the man who holds the power.
4
Piety
Trying to protect someone is not enough to stop the man who holds the power.
6
Courage
She stays in it to protect someone, and the city is still not saved.
8
Republic
The public crime is the water: a city handed over by a private grab.
3
Temperance
A powerful man's want runs the city, and nothing bridles it in time.
8
Truth
The adultery case is the cover; the water is the truth, and the city is not saved.
2
Stewardship
Nothing is left for the people. The last line says the city does not get saved.

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Aang

54Watch it awake.

The original measure stands: a child is not only a weapon. This poster has not earned a new score.

The review

Aang, in the story people love, runs from a duty and then picks it up without becoming cruel. Friends are not a squad. The enemy is an empire, and the answer is not a prettier empire. A new picture with his name on it can keep that or spend it. The tile shows the name and a Paramount mark.

Do not give the new film the old affection for free. Watch twenty minutes. If the boy is a brand and the bending is the product, you already have the series, which did the harder thing. If he is still the one who will not win by murder, stay.

Journal

Keep Aang in the record.