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Film · MGM · 1933

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Dinner at Eight

49Watch it awake.

A dinner for a lord, famous faces, and the lives below already failing.

The review

A socialite plans a dinner for a lord, and the dinner is not the point. A shipping man is going broke. An actress is going down. There is a doctor, a vain aging star, and a vulgar couple with new money. Harlow, Dressler, Barrymore, Beery. Adult enough for older kids, not a small child's night. A house can watch it. The party is a lid on lives that are failing.

I have sat at tables where the menu was doing the performing. This all-star crowd doesn't ask you to believe the lord's visit repairs anyone. Keep a tally of who is already slipping. The invitation is the excuse. The failing is what that party was papering over.

Journal

Keep Dinner at Eight in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic 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

The Quiet Man

58 instead of 49

The Quiet Man is still a comedy film, and it scores 58 instead of 49. What you gain is republic: A village with its own law.

The eight

7
Industry
A shipping man going broke still has a business that counts.
5
Household
A hostess and couples fill one dinner while lives fail.
4
Piety
Vanity and the party go on over lives that are failing.
4
Courage
Going broke and going down are losses already underway.
4
Republic
A lord, a shipping line, and new money share a table.
5
Temperance
The dinner is the want, and the film leaves that want bare.
6
Truth
The party pretends the night is fine while the lives fail.
4
Stewardship
The lid stays on, and no one at the table is put right.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2014

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American Sniper

49Watch it awake.

The skill is not the same thing as the war. Adults. The wife is the witness. Watch awake.

The review

A shepherd of men, in his own mind, looks through a scope and has to decide what a child in the street is holding. Those seconds are the serious part. The film is often more comfortable on the roof than in the kitchen, and the people on the other end of the shot are rarely given a kitchen at all.

Adults. Do not put it on as a recruitment poster or as a debunking. If you watch it, stay for the grocery store, where a man who was decisive cannot be. Ask what a country owes the person it trained to do this, and what it owes the rooms it never filmed.

Journal

Keep American Sniper in the record.