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Film · MGM · 1932

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Grand Hotel

36Leave it.

Strangers cross in a Berlin hotel, never make a household, and nobody is home.

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The review

A tired ballerina, a baron who steals, a clerk who is dying and spending, a businessman, a stenographer. They cross in a Berlin hotel. Garbo, Crawford, Beery, two Barrymores. Best picture, a hit, not a settled winner beside The Sign of the Cross. I liked that cast. Liking them did not make a family.

The lives touch and do not become a household. Nobody is home. The clerk spends what he has left because he is dying, and the baron steals. A house can watch the crossings. I would not call those names a family.

Journal

Keep Grand Hotel in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 36. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

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

Consider this

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

48 instead of 36

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is still a drama film, and it scores 48 instead of 36. What you gain is household: Friends who make a place.

The eight

7
Industry
A ballerina, a clerk, a businessman, and a stenographer cross as jobs.
2
Household
The lives touch and do not become a household. Nobody is home.
3
Piety
A baron steals and a dying clerk spends, and nobody is stopped.
5
Courage
A clerk who is dying spends what is left of a life he will miss.
3
Republic
Strangers in a Berlin hotel never become a town that owes a neighbor.
3
Temperance
A dying clerk spends, and the hotel keeps offering another stranger.
4
Truth
A baron steals, and the lives that touch never settle into a household.
2
Stewardship
Nobody is home, and the night leaves no household for anyone after.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2010

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Black Swan

36Leave it.

The discipline is real. Perfection is the idol, and the film kneels with her. Adults.

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The review

Practice is not the villain. She has given herself to a hard craft, and the film respects the craft enough to show the feet. The villain is the idea that a person may be spent completely if the result is perfect. Her mother wanted a dancer in the house more than a daughter. The director wants the performance. She agrees.

Adults only. Do not watch it as a stylish breakdown to quote. If a young dancer in the house hears that perfection is this, say the plainer thing: the body is not raw material, and a role ends.

Journal

Keep Black Swan in the record.