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Film · MGM · 1926

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Flesh and the Devil

26Leave it.

Adults only: a friendship wrecked and a marriage eaten is not a romance I will leave on.

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The review

Not for this house while the kids are up. Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, two friends, an officer's wife, and a desire that wrecks the friendship. MGM, 1926, a prestige hit, not Aloma's tally. A duel is the finish. Adult. I am not describing the sex.

The want is the plot. The marriage is what it eats. I don't need a lecture to see a friendship and a household used as fuel. Not a family film. Grown people can watch it as wanting that does not stop, and they should not let the stars rename the wreck a love story. The duel is the finish, not a cure.

Journal

Keep Flesh and the Devil in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. 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

Regretting You

39 instead of 26

Regretting You is still a romance film, and it scores 39 instead of 26. What you gain is household: A mother and daughter who have to remain a house after the lie.

The eight

3
Industry
An officer is in it, and the plot is the desire, not the duty.
3
Household
A marriage is present so the desire can eat it, not so it can last.
2
Piety
Nothing in the want stops them before a duel is called the finish.
3
Courage
The duel risks a life, and it is the wreck of a friendship, not a duty.
2
Republic
Two friends and an officer's wife, and no town is owed a thing.
1
Temperance
The want is the plot, and the picture stays with it until the duel.
5
Truth
The desire wrecks the friendship, and the duel is the bill that comes.
2
Stewardship
Left of them is a wrecked friendship and a marriage the want already ate.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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The review

It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.

Journal

Keep Gigi in the record.