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Film · Britain · 1900

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Grandma's Reading Glass

29Leave it.

Smith's minute with grandma's glass is a close-up lesson, not a visit.

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The review

Grandma's glass is the whole evening, and the evening is a minute. G. A. Smith, 1900. A child looks through it at a bird, a cat, a watch, and an eye. A child can watch it. I thought we were getting a visit with a grandmother. We got a catalog of close-ups. The close-up is the lesson, whether or not the picture meant to teach it.

Grandma and the child are why the glass is picked up, and then each object takes a turn. Pleasant, short, and finished. I wouldn't call it a portrait of our kind of household. I'd call it the minute that brought an eye and a watch up close.

Journal

Keep Grandma's Reading Glass in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic 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.

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Scooby-Doo

41 instead of 29

Scooby-Doo is still a comedy film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: They go into the scary room for each other.

The eight

1
Industry
Nobody has a job; the glass is the only tool in use.
5
Household
A child and a grandma share the glass; that pair is the home.
2
Piety
Looking closely is the lesson, not a conscience that stops anyone.
1
Courage
A bird, a cat, a watch, an eye: nothing here is risked.
1
Republic
No neighbor or law is involved; the looking stays indoors.
3
Temperance
Bird, cat, watch, eye: each look invites the next one.
5
Truth
The close-up taught a way of seeing, whether Smith meant it or not.
5
Stewardship
What it left is the close-up, shown through a grandmother's glass.

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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1963

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Cleopatra

29Leave it.

The procession is the product. The affair is the plot, and the plot is not a life.

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It cost enough to nearly sink a studio, and the cost is not a quality. A queen manages Rome by managing two men, and the film is interested in the managing as a pageant and a love affair. The processions are long because the processions are what the money bought. I will not pretend the length is grandeur. Length is what you get when nobody was willing to cut the entrance.

The marriages in the way of the affair are treated as furniture. That is the part a house should not absorb. Adults can look at the barge as a document of a certain kind of Hollywood excess and then leave it. Do not sit a young person down in front of four hours in which the lesson is that history is a romance with better curtains. The crowds came. The number is not the crowds.

Journal

Keep Cleopatra in the record.