Film · UFA · 1921
Pass it on
Destiny
53Watch it awake.
She follows Death for three chances, and love is not a guarantee.
The review
Death takes a young man. The woman follows. She is given three chances, told as three stories, to win a life back. Lil Dagover. Fritz Lang, a German picture, and not a crowd in the American houses. A teen can watch it. I put it on late. The frame is a bargain, not a chase, and nobody in our house was waiting on a hit.
I don't know a parent who hasn't rehearsed a deal like that on a bad night. Three chances, three stories, and the terms belong to Death. Love is why she goes. It is not shown as a key that opens anything by itself. A teen can take the gloom if you sit there. It stayed with me longer than the costume nights did.
Journal
Keep Destiny in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Republic and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Wizard of Oz
63 instead of 53
The Wizard of Oz is still a fantasy film, and it scores 63 instead of 53. What you gain is republic: The city is a fraud with a good man behind the curtain.
The eight
- 2Industry
Three stories carry a bargain, and no one's job is the point.
- 7Household
She follows the young man Death took and tries to win him back.
- 7Piety
She bargains with Death and still has to live inside his terms.
- 8Courage
She goes after him, spending her chances on a life she would miss.
- 2Republic
A private bargain with Death, not a debt owed to any town.
- 6Temperance
Three chances are a limit, not a license to want without end.
- 6Truth
Death's terms are the frame, and the offer does not soften them.
- 4Stewardship
American houses passed it by; the bargain is what you still keep.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Destiny · 53IMDb
