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Film · MGM · 1944

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Gaslight

55Watch it awake.

This is the one where a husband tries to talk a wife out of her own mind.

The review

People toss the word around now for a sharp remark. That is not what he does to her. Boyer works to make Bergman believe she is losing her mind, because of what is hidden in the house. The lights dip. I won't linger. Adult. Not a family film. The marriage is the method.

The cruelty has a name because this picture let it walk into the language. Useful, and not a reason to treat the night as cozy or to put a child in front of it. Her mind is the target. I'd watch only with another adult, and I'd use the word afterward for this kind of campaign, not for a quarrel.

Journal

Keep Gaslight in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Temperance 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

Witness

68 instead of 55

Witness is still a thriller film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: Carpentry, farming, and a barn raised in a day by people who still know how.

The eight

3
Industry
His labor is the campaign against her mind, for a hidden thing.
6
Household
The marriage is the life he turns into the method of the cruelty.
4
Piety
The method wrecks her trust in herself, so nothing inside stops him.
7
Courage
Holding her own senses is the risk, in a house set against her.
6
Republic
The cruelty left the language a name for a harm a person is owed.
4
Temperance
What is hidden keeps him going. Her distress is not put down.
8
Truth
She is not losing her mind. The lie is the method, and it got a name.
6
Stewardship
The word left the film, which the next person can use with care.

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Film · 20th Century · 2009

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Avatar

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.

Journal

Keep Avatar in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. 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?

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

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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.