Film · 20th Century · 1947
Pass it on
Gentleman's Agreement
60Watch it awake.
He puts on Jewishness like a coat, and the friend who lives it is tired.
The review
Best picture, and I still side with the friend who's tired of being the lesson. A writer who isn't Jewish tells people he is, so he can feel what antisemitism does in restaurants, hotels, and his own circle. The method is a costume. He can take it off. That seam showed the whole time.
His fiancée agrees in theory and fails in practice. I believed her without effort. Most houses have her. The country-club contempt is real, and the experiment isn't the life. Watch it for that gap. Don't congratulate the writer on the way to bed.
Journal
Keep Gentleman's Agreement in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.
The glance
Stewardship is the thin one.
What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
High Noon
74 instead of 60
High Noon is still a drama film, and it scores 74 instead of 60. What you gain is courage: He walks the street alone.
The eight
- 7Industry
A writer takes the job of feeling a prejudice and writing it up.
- 7Household
His fiancée agrees in theory and fails when her own circle is the test.
- 5Piety
Conscience gets him into the costume and does not keep her from the club.
- 5Courage
He can take the false identity off; the life he borrows cannot.
- 8Republic
Restaurants, hotels, and a country club are where the contempt is real.
- 6Temperance
She will not give up the approval of the people who keep others out.
- 6Truth
His Jewishness is a lie he can exit, and a Jewish friend tires of the lesson.
- 4Stewardship
A story gets written, and the friend who lived it is left tired of use.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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