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Film · Columbia · 1969

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Easy Rider

28Leave it.

The road is beautiful. The freedom is funded by a drug deal, and the country shoots them.

Take controlThis scores 28. Easy Rider cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Two men sell cocaine and ride motorcycles toward Mardi Gras. A small-town lawyer joins them for a while. The country they cross is beautiful. Then it kills them for looking free.

A small film that made a fortune. The freedom is a feeling, and the feeling was bought with the deal. Adults. Do not hand a teenager the poster and skip the opening sale. The last cruelty is real. So is the money underneath the romance of the road.

Journal

Keep Easy Rider in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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 Godfather

41 instead of 28

The Godfather is still a drama film, and it scores 41 instead of 28. What you gain is industry: The family is grimly competent.

The eight

2
Industry
The trip is paid for by selling cocaine. That is the job.
1
Household
No house, no spouse, no child. The road is the refusal of one.
2
Piety
They talk as if the ride were holy. Nothing they do is a duty.
4
Courage
They ride into towns that hate them. The nerve was bought.
3
Republic
The country they cross answers difference with a gun.
2
Temperance
The deal, the drugs, and the feeling of being free are the point.
6
Truth
The film does not hide what paid for the motorcycles.
2
Stewardship
They are shot on the road. Nothing is left but the poster.

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Film · DreamWorks · 1999

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American Beauty

28Leave it.

The household is rotting, and the picture is too pleased to watch. Adults. Not a liberation.

Take controlThis scores 28. American Beauty cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

The film is right that a house can become a catalog and a silence. It is wrong about the cure. A man chasing a feeling, and a plastic bag offered as transcendence, is not a repair. A daughter lives in the house while the film calls his restlessness honesty.

Adults. If you saw it in its year and called it brave, look again at who the bravery costs. The table was the place to begin. He begins with himself and calls it beauty.