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Film · RKO · 1941

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Citizen Kane

55Watch it awake.

It was not a hit, and a palace full of things does not explain the man.

The review

It was not a hit. I start there because the talk became permanent and the crowd did not come. A reporter tries to learn what a dead publisher meant by his last word. The life is told by people he used: a guardian, a friend, a wife, a manager. A palace full of things. Orson Welles. Adult enough for a teen. I would not give it to a small child and hope for a story they can retell.

Do not treat the childhood object as the whole man. A last word is a bad way to finish a person. He used the people who talk about him. The paper was real work, and the palace is the pile. You can admire how it's told. It still was not the crowd's picture, and a building full of objects is not a household.

Journal

Keep Citizen Kane in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage 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

Casablanca

68 instead of 55

Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He walks into the risk he had refused.

The eight

8
Industry
He is a newspaper publisher, and the tellers of his life were people he used.
5
Household
A wife is among the people he used, not a marriage the palace kept.
3
Piety
No turn in the life shows conscience stopping him short of the palace.
4
Courage
A reporter chases a last word; the publisher collected things.
7
Republic
A publisher owes a public and leaves them a palace instead.
6
Temperance
The palace is full, and the film does not ask you to envy the pile.
7
Truth
People he used each tell a piece, and one last word will not settle him.
4
Stewardship
He leaves a palace full of things and the people he used to get them.

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Film · 20th Century · 2009

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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.

The review

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

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance 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

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

65 instead of 55

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is still a action film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He stays when the dream offers him his family back.