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Funny Girl

56Watch it awake.

She takes the stage they did not design for her, and the marriage cannot stand it.

The review

Fanny Brice forces her way onto the Follies stage by being funny when the costume does not fit the beauty they wanted. The songs are hers. It is based on a real career, and the pleasure is a woman making a place that was not going to be handed to her. I like that the work is the talent. Nobody waves a wand and calls her the right shape.

She marries a gambler who cannot bear her success. The marriage fails. That is not a side plot you skip on the way back to the hits. It is the second half, and it is sad because the reason is small and recognizable: he cannot stand the person he married once the room is clapping for her. Watch the songs. Then stay for the man who needed her smaller. The career remains. The house does not.

Journal

Keep Funny Girl in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Mary Poppins

69 instead of 56

Mary Poppins is still a musical film, and it scores 69 instead of 56. What you gain is household: The children are the point of the house, and the film does not trade them for a career.

The eight

9
Industry
She forces a career by being funny when the costume was built for someone else.
5
Household
The marriage fails because a gambler cannot bear the success of his wife.
4
Piety
Nothing in him bends so her success can sit quietly in the house.
7
Courage
She walks on anyway, knowing she is not the beauty the stage ordered.
3
Republic
The Follies are a stage business, not a town she owes or a law she keeps.
5
Temperance
A gambler's want sits beside her work, and the work is the steadier thing.
7
Truth
The marriage fails for a reason the film will say: he cannot bear her success.
5
Stewardship
A real career is left standing, and the marriage is not.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

56Watch it awake.

The warning is the same as the first film. The water is not a warehouse either.

The review

The first film said a forest is not inventory. This one moves the same sentence underwater, and the sentence is still true. Jake's trouble is that the war he joined has children now, and a father who made himself a weapon does not get to retire from it when the next boat comes.

The spectacle is the product. Stay for the father who would rather the children learn the reef than learn his war, and notice the film cannot help spending them on the war anyway. Take the warning. Do not take the three hours of fire as the point.

Journal

Keep Avatar: The Way of Water in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

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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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

68 instead of 56

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still a adventure film, and it scores 68 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: An empire, a rebellion, a council that is afraid to act.