Film · Warner Bros. · 1939
Pass it on
Dark Victory
63Watch it awake.
Bring a tissue, and don't wait for the illness to change its mind.
The review
Bette Davis is a heiress who learns a brain illness will blind her and then kill her. I am not going into the medicine. She falls in love with her doctor and decides how to spend the time. I expected a tear-jerker that would cheat. It does not lie about the ending.
Adult, and not for children. I would not call it comfort if someone here is ill, unless they already want it straight. The courage is the last day. My partner and I could watch it after the kids are down. Bravery here is not the illness changing its mind.
Journal
Keep Dark Victory in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
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
12 Angry Men
75 instead of 63
12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is republic: A jury is the whole subject, and it is treated with fear and love.
The eight
- 5Industry
He is a doctor; she is a heiress deciding how to spend the time.
- 7Household
She loves her doctor, and that love is the life she has left.
- 6Piety
She can face the end without a softer story forced on her.
- 9Courage
The courage is the last day, which costs the life she would miss.
- 2Republic
One woman's illness, not a debt to a neighbor or a town.
- 7Temperance
She chooses how to use the time instead of pretending it is open.
- 9Truth
It is a tear-jerker, and it does not lie about the ending.
- 5Stewardship
What remains is an honest death, not a heiress pulled back.
Where to watch
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