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Film · Universal · 1989

Field of Dreams

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Rating: 73
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73Worth an evening.

A man risks the farm to forgive his father. The magic is the excuse. The apology is the point.

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The review

The voice is famous, and the voice is not the story. The story is a man who left home angry and has a child of his own before he can say he was unfair. The cornfield is a ridiculous obedience. The film knows it is ridiculous and asks you to watch what the obedience is for. It is for a catch that should have happened in a backyard twenty years earlier.

A family can watch it. Say that you do not plow under a livelihood for a mood. Then keep the part that is not a mood: if your father is alive, the catch is still available, and it will not be improved by waiting for a ghost. If he is not, the film is a picture of regret that at least tells the truth about the shape of it.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 73

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is republic: Potter would own the street.

The eight

6
Industry
He farms, and then he does a harder job: he keeps a promise that looks like ruin.
9
Household
The whole last inning is a son who did not know how to want his father.
7
Piety
A voice he cannot prove. He obeys it anyway, which is either faith or folly, and the film picks faith.
8
Courage
Plowing the corn under, with the bank watching, is the brave act.
5
Republic
A town thinks he is crazy. The debt is to his own house, not yet to the county.
7
Temperance
No appetite. The want is old and specific: a game of catch.
8
Truth
He has to admit he was wrong about the man who raised him.
8
Stewardship
What he builds is a place a father can still walk into. That is inheritance.

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Film · Columbia · 1961

A Raisin in the Sun

73Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. The check is not the prize. A house, and the man the son is going to be, are.

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The review

A father dies and the insurance money arrives in an apartment that is too small for the people in it. The son wants to invest in a liquor store and become someone the check can make him. The mother wants a house. The sister wants a school. The daughter-in-law wants the marriage to survive the son's idea of himself. A man from the neighborhood they are moving into offers to pay them not to come. The offer is the country's sentence, and the film does not blur the man's politeness into innocence.

This is one of the few pictures of the decade I would clear a weeknight for without a hedge. Watch it as a family argument before you watch it as a document. Ask what the son thought the money was for, and what his mother knew it was for. The answers are a stature and a house. The film is on the side of the house, and it is right. Older children can sit through it. The yelling is the sound of people who are not done with each other.

Journal

Keep A Raisin in the Sun in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. 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?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 73

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

7
Industry
The mother cleans other people's houses. The son drives. The work is not abstract.
9
Household
Three generations in a small apartment are the subject, and each of them is a person.
6
Piety
The mother's standard is the conscience of the picture, and it is not a speech from nowhere.
7
Courage
She does the thing the neighborhood association is counting on a tired woman not to do.
7
Republic
A house in a white neighborhood is the public fact, and the film does not treat it as a symbol only.
6
Temperance
The son's scheme is the appetite. The mother will not let the scheme spend the family.
8
Truth
A dream can be a lie if it costs the people in the room. The film makes him see the cost.
8
Stewardship
A house inherits a mother who will not trade the family for a man's idea of stature.

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