Film · MGM · 1939
Pass it on
Gone with the Wind
31Leave it.
The crowd was enormous, and the film still grieves a slave world as if it had been a grace.
Take controlThis scores 31. Gone with the Wind cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
I would not put this on and call it history for a child. A willful girl on a plantation loses the war, the house, and more than one marriage. She survives by nerve. The man she wants leaves. People still mean this romance when they talk about the crowd of the decade. It sat for years as the largest gross on the books. I felt the scale. The scale is not what bothered me on the way home.
The film treats that slave society as a lost grace and the people enslaved in it as devotion. You can like her nerve and still refuse the mourning. I won't quote a farewell. Adults only, and only if you'll say that devotion was a lie about people who were owned. It is not a history lesson for a child.
Journal
Keep Gone with the Wind in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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
Voicemails for Isabelle
44 instead of 31
Voicemails for Isabelle is still a drama film, and it scores 44 instead of 31. What you gain is stewardship: What she is trying to keep is a voice.
The eight
- 4Industry
She survives by nerve; enslaved labor is framed as devotion, not work.
- 5Household
She loses more than one marriage, and the man she wants still leaves.
- 2Piety
Her nerve is never stopped, and the film keeps mourning the slave order.
- 6Courage
She loses the war, the house, and the marriages, and stays by nerve.
- 2Republic
The order it grieves is a slave society, a debt the film will not pay.
- 2Temperance
The lost house and the man are the want, and that want is never put down.
- 2Truth
Enslaved people are played as devotion, and the romance never treats that as a debt.
- 2Stewardship
What's left is a mourner and a plantation myth, not a people freed.
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