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Film · Paramount · 1943

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

55Watch it awake.

Adult war: a few days with her, and he still came to blow up the bridge.

The review

Not for children. An American who knows explosives joins a republican band in the Spanish mountains to blow a bridge. He and a girl who has survived a wrecked town have a few days. Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Among the largest grosses of its year. He is not yet his own country's soldier. Adult, because of the war, and I won't describe wounds.

Those few days are not a household you can move into. What he carries is a skill the band needs, and a wrecked town is already behind her. Older teens only if you're in the room, and only if you'll say the bridge is the job. The short time with her does not make the mountains a home.

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Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Casablanca

68 instead of 55

Casablanca is still a war film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: He hands the future to people who can use it.

The eight

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Industry
He knows explosives, and the bridge is a job the band cannot do without that.
3
Household
He and a girl have a few days, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
4
Piety
Nothing in the story shows conscience stopping him; he came to do the bridge.
8
Courage
He risks the few days he has with her on a war that is not his country's yet.
7
Republic
He joins a republican band and takes on a fight before his own country is in.
5
Temperance
The few days with her stay in the story, and the bridge is not dropped for them.
6
Truth
He is there to blow the bridge, and the short bond does not rewrite the job.
3
Stewardship
She comes from a wrecked town, and his work is a bridge destroyed, not kept.

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55Watch it awake.

The land is not a warehouse. The sermon is right. The body he borrows, and the war that follows, are the part to hold lightly.

The review

A corporation will burn a place for a rock, and the film is not shy about naming that. That is the line to keep. Jake Sully's answer is to become the people he was sent to betray, and then to lead their war, which is a thinner answer than the warning.

Watch it for the warning. Do not take the blue body as a permission to throw your own life away for a feeling of belonging.

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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?

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Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

65 instead of 55

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is still a action film, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is courage: He stays when the dream offers him his family back.