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Film · MGM · 1965

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Doctor Zhivago

45Watch it awake.

The poem is serious. The affair is still the thing the film asks you to swoon for.

The review

The balalaika and the ice are what people quote. A married doctor is living through a revolution that does not care about his poems, and he loves a woman who is not his wife. The film is often honest about the committees, the trains, and the way a public slogan walks into a private room and starts giving orders. That part is worth keeping. The patients are real. The cold is real.

The selling, though, is the look between the two who are not married. His wife and child become the scenery the romance has to get past. I will not call that a tragic necessity as if the camera were helpless. Adults can watch the revolution eat a life and still refuse the swoon. Do not let a young person take the swoon as the definition of a great love. A great love in this picture leaves a wife in the snow.

Journal

Keep Doctor Zhivago in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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The Quiet Man

58 instead of 45

The Quiet Man is still a drama film, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A marriage that has to be public to be real.

The eight

5
Industry
He is a doctor, and the film sometimes remembers the patients under the romance.
3
Household
A wife and a child are the household. The other love is the one the camera prefers.
4
Piety
Russia is breaking, and conscience shows up as grief more than as a vow he keeps.
6
Courage
He stays in a country that is eating its people, and he tries to keep a private life alive.
5
Republic
The revolution is a public fact. He owes it a judgment the romance keeps interrupting.
3
Temperance
Appetite is the story they sell, and the winter is the punishment that does not reform it.
6
Truth
The slogans are shown as slogans. The lie the film likes is that the affair is the life.
4
Stewardship
A house inherits a beautiful wreck, and a permission slip if you are not awake.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2018

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A Star Is Born

45Watch it awake.

Love is not a cure for a man who will not put the drink down. The film knows. It still asks you to ache for him.

The review

Ally has a gift and a job she is afraid to claim. Jackson has a gift he is spending to stay numb. The film sees both, and then it makes his death the door to her voice, which is an old lie about artists: that the ruin is the price of the true note. The true note was already there in the parking lot, before the ruin was asked to be meaningful.

Adults only. If you watch it, refuse the last alchemy. A person who kills himself is not a chord. Say that in the room so the song does not get the last word.

Journal

Keep A Star Is Born in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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Don't Say Good Luck

63 instead of 45

Don't Say Good Luck is still a drama film, and it scores 63 instead of 45. What you gain is temperance: Sentiment is thick.