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Film · Warner Bros. · 2021

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Dune

56Watch it awake.

Power handed to a boy, and a people who are not his. The first half of a warning. Do not take the chosen-one glow as the moral.

The review

Leto goes to Arrakis knowing the gift is poisoned, because a duke's work is the posting, not the safety. That is the part worthy of a house. Paul is a boy being fitted for a myth, and the myth was manufactured by an order that wants a lever. The film sees this and still photographs him as the lever.

Watch the first film as a political warning, not as a baptism. The Fremen are not a reward for the outsider who learns their ways. If the house sees it, say that out loud before the second film makes the warning harder to hear.

Journal

Keep Dune in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

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Consider this

Interstellar

69 instead of 56

Interstellar is still a adventure film, and it scores 69 instead of 56. What you gain is industry: Farming, engineering, a mission with a job description.

The eight

6
Industry
Spice, stillsuits, a military household with drills and a staff.
6
Household
A mother and a son and a father who knows he is walking into a trap and goes because it is the order.
4
Piety
Prophecy is a tool planted by a cult. The film is uneasy about it, and also shines it.
7
Courage
The father accepts a duty that will likely end him. The son survives it.
5
Republic
Great houses, an emperor offstage, a people in the desert who are not extras, yet.
6
Temperance
The scale is severe, not giddy. Appetite is mostly for awe.
6
Truth
The betrayal is political and it is shown as a betrayal, not as cleverness.
5
Stewardship
What he inherits is a destiny other people wrote. The question of whether he may spend it is postponed.

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Film · 20th Century · 2022

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

Journal

Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

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.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

68 instead of 56

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still a adventure film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: An empire, a rebellion, a council that is afraid to act.