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Film · Goldwyn · 1936

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Dodsworth

53Watch it awake.

He built the cars, and a holiday is what shows the marriage will not hold.

The review

Walter Huston plays a man who built cars, retires, and takes his wife to Europe. Ruth Chatterton wants a new life with other men. He is still the man who built something. I put it on late, without the kids. A house can watch it, and a child should not. The marriage does not survive the leisure. That is the story, not a bump I can smooth. Adult, because the holiday is not innocent.

The work was his. The trip shows what the house was for, and it was not for hotels or other men. I kept wanting the factory years to count as a marriage. The picture will not allow it. If you are tired and want a couple repaired by vacation, this will grate. It grated, and that seemed right. Leisure spends what the work had been holding.

Journal

Keep Dodsworth in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic 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

Casablanca

68 instead of 53

Casablanca is still a drama film, and it scores 68 instead of 53. What you gain is republic: A occupied city, and a man who stops pretending it is only a nightclub.

The eight

8
Industry
He manufactured cars, and retirement is what takes that work away.
8
Household
The marriage is the life on screen, and the leisure ends it.
3
Piety
Nothing on the holiday stops her wanting a life with other men.
5
Courage
He takes her to Europe and risks the marriage the work had held.
3
Republic
The cars were for buyers; the film stays with the couple in Europe.
3
Temperance
She wants other men, and the idle months never put that down.
7
Truth
The holiday exposes what the house was for once the work stops.
5
Stewardship
He leaves a built company behind and a marriage that does not last.

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Film · Prime Video · 1983

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A Christmas Story

53Watch it awake.

Keep it. Desire, a tangent-prone father, and a feast that survives the disaster.

The review

Ralphie's want is excessive and completely recognizable. The Old Man's pride in a hideous lamp is the adult version of the same excess, which is why the film is fair. The mother's management of both is the uncredited heroism. There is a meanness in a few of the jokes that a house can talk over. The Chinese Christmas dinner, when the turkey dies, is the scene that knows what a feast is: the people, relocated, still fed.

Watch it every year if you want. Skip any bit that is only a wince. Keep the pink bunny and the humility it requires.

Journal

Keep A Christmas Story in the record.