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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1996

Courage Under Fire

Name: Courage Under Fire scores 63 — Live Historic
Item: Courage Under Fire
Rating: 63
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63Watch it awake.

A medal, a lie, and a woman who had a command. Worth an evening.

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The review

Lieutenant Colonel Nat Serling is sent to certify the bravery of Captain Karen Walden, killed in the Gulf War. The witnesses disagree about whether she was a leader or a coward or something the men do not have a clean word for. Serling has his own night, a friendly-fire incident the Army has also agreed to tell in a useful way. The two stories are the same kind of debt.

Adults. The question is not whether women can command. The film thinks they can, and then it does the harder thing: it lets the command be a specific night with fear in it. Watch it when a house is tempted to settle a person's whole life by the award or the accusation that arrived first.

Journal

Keep Courage Under Fire in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Saving Private Ryan

75 instead of 63

Saving Private Ryan is still a war film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is stewardship: The charge at the end is to earn it.

The eight

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Industry
Investigation is the work: interviews, records, a man trying to reconstruct a night he was not at.
5
Household
His own house is breaking under a guilt he will not name. Her crew was a household under fire.
4
Piety
Honor is the word the Army wants. The film asks what the word is covering.
8
Courage
Her courage is the question, and the film will not answer it with a poster.
7
Republic
An institution handing out its highest medal has a reason to need the story clean.
5
Temperance
His drinking is the spill. The night itself is violent and not lingered on.
8
Truth
Rashomon in a uniform. The truth is assembled, not announced.
6
Stewardship
What it leaves is a caution about any medal that arrives before the facts.

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Film · United Artists · 1977

A Bridge Too Far

63Watch it awake.

Worth the evening for the cost of a vanity operation. It is a day of duty, and then it is a defeat.

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The review

Richard Attenborough's film is three hours because the operation was a chain, and a chain is the only way to see where it breaks. Paratroopers are dropped to take bridges in the Netherlands. The last bridge, Arnhem, is the one the armor does not reach in time. Radios fail. A road is a single road. Men hold a position because the plan says the armor is coming, and the plan is wrong.

Older teens and adults. You do not need to love a general to learn from this. Ask, at the end, which warning was already in the room before the first aircraft took off. A house that only watches victories will think courage is a guarantee. This film is the correction.

Journal

Keep A Bridge Too Far in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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

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Consider this

Gettysburg

74 instead of 63

Gettysburg is still a war film, and it scores 74 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: The argument of the war is in the mouths of the officers, and it is not treated as embarrassment.