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Film · Netflix · 2020

Da 5 Bloods

Name: Da 5 Bloods scores 56 — Live Historic
Item: Da 5 Bloods
Rating: 56
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56Watch it awake.

The brotherhood is real. The treasure plot is the weaker half. Adults. Watch it for the men, not for the gold.

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The review

Spike Lee sends Paul, Otis, Eddie, and Melvin back to the country where their squad leader, Stormin' Norman, died. They say they are there for his remains. They are also there for gold they buried. The film is a history lesson, a ghost story, and an action picture, and those three modes do not always speak to each other. The lesson and the ghost are the parts that justify the night.

Adults. It is long and it is loud and the violence, when it turns cartoon, undercuts the photographs Lee himself inserts. Stay for the photographs and for Paul, a man whose politics and pain are not arranged to flatter the room. A house that only knows Vietnam from a white lieutenant's voice needs this argument in the room, even if it does not need the gold.

Journal

Keep Da 5 Bloods in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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

In the Valley of Elah

68 instead of 56

In the Valley of Elah is still a war film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is industry: He still works a case the way he was trained, which is the only competence he has left.

The eight

5
Industry
They had a war job and now they have a return that is part pilgrimage and part heist.
6
Household
A son comes along. Fathers and brothers are the household, arguing in the jungle.
4
Piety
The dead brother is treated as a saint. Grief is the reverence.
6
Courage
Going back is courage. So is the argument they have been avoiding since the plane home.
7
Republic
Black soldiers in a war for a country that was not finished with its own promise. That is the public fact.
4
Temperance
The gold and the gunfight are an appetite the film did not need.
7
Truth
Spike Lee puts the real photographs in. The fiction is hotter than the photographs, on purpose.
6
Stewardship
What it leaves is a debt to the men who fought and to the countries a war does not tidy up.

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Film · Orion · 1984

Amadeus

56Watch it awake.

The music is a gift, and the man narrating it is not on your side.

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The review

Salieri is the one talking. He knows he is good, he knows the other man is better, and he calls that God's injustice. The film is not a note-by-note life of Mozart. A father, a wife, money, and a body are in it. The music is the evidence. The confession is the frame. I enjoyed the music and did not enjoy the man handing it to me.

Save it for a night when envy is worth talking about afterward. Nobody in the room should be asked to admire the narrator. He tells a truth about a gift he cannot match, then spends the truth on a grievance. The music does not need his permission, and the warning is how a gifted man talks once he has decided heaven owes him an apology.

Journal

Keep Amadeus in the record.