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Film · Paramount · 1983

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Flashdance

34Leave it.

The bucket of water is what they sold. The welding is the fact the movie drops.

Take controlThis scores 34. Flashdance cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Everybody remembers the water. She dances in a bar, the bucket goes over, and that became the poster. Fewer people remember she is a welder, which is the better fact and the one the film misplaces. She wants a conservatory audition. The job is in the story. Then the story gets bored of the job.

You can watch the dancing. The nerve of an audition is not fake, and people who have tried out for something will feel it. What I will not do is pretend the work survived the last reel. It did not. Say the welding before you replay the song, or the night belongs to an image. An image can be pretty. It is not a shift.

Journal

Keep Flashdance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

A Star Is Born

45 instead of 34

A Star Is Born is still a drama film, and it scores 45 instead of 34. What you gain is industry: Stages, arrangements, a career built in public.

The eight

4
Industry
Welding is in the film, and then the film forgets the job for the audition.
2
Household
No marriage, parent, or child is a life here. A bar and an audition take the room.
3
Piety
Nothing asks her to stop. The audition is the permission the film keeps giving.
6
Courage
Walking into a conservatory audition is a real risk of being turned away.
2
Republic
No neighbor, law, or town is owed anything. The stake is her own tryout.
3
Temperance
The water-bucket image is what the movie trains you to want again.
4
Truth
It shows you a welder, then breaks that and pretends the poster was the work.
3
Stewardship
Nothing is left for a workplace. The last feeling belongs to the audition.

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Film · Netflix · 2026

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Animals

34Leave it.

He wins the city on a rescue that was not his.

Take controlThis scores 34. If you do not want Animals in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

Mark Kimball has already spent what the house had, in secret, on a race he is losing. His wife is already gone in all but the papers. A call says their son is taken. The son is at home. The boy who was taken is Hector, the son of the man who waits on their housekeeper. A fixer is hired. At the end the public is told that Mark is the man who saved the boy, and the votes follow.

The measure is that last thank-you. A child was the price of a story, and the story is what the city believed. Do not admire the nerve.

Journal

Keep Animals in the record.