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Film · Sony · 2020

Greyhound

Greyhound

70Worth an evening.

The work of a crossing. Prayer is in it. The night is the battle. Keep it.

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The review

Tom Hanks adapted C. S. Forester's The Good Shepherd and plays Commander Ernest Krause, a man who has waited a long time for a ship and meets the war in the one stretch of ocean where help cannot fly. The film is seventy-odd minutes of the Battle of the Atlantic. Men eat standing up. A mistake in a bearing is a funeral. The German boats talk on the radio like a taunt.

Older teens and adults. It is a better war film than most of the ones with twice the budget because it will not leave the bridge. Say that a prayer is not a tactic, and that the film does not claim it is. The tactic is the work. The prayer is what the man does so the work does not become the only thing he is.

Journal

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The glance

Household is the thin one.

  1. 9Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 8Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 6Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

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

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Consider this

Taking Chance

81 instead of 70

Taking Chance is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 70. What you gain is household: The corporal's family is the house at the end of the road.

The eight

  1. 9
    Industry

    Command of a destroyer escort is shown as orders, bearings, and no sleep.

  2. 4
    Household

    Home is a woman on a train platform. The ship is the household he can actually keep that week.

  3. 8
    Piety

    He prays, specifically, and the film does not wink at it.

  4. 8
    Courage

    The courage is staying on the bridge when the calculation says the next hour is worse.

  5. 6
    Republic

    A convoy is a public duty: other men's ships, other men's cargo, a war that needs the freight.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    No subplot about a girl in a port. The appetite has been cut away, and the film is better for it.

  7. 7
    Truth

    The tactics are the pleasure. The fear is not staged as glory.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    What it hands on is a picture of competence under an order, for one crossing.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

70Worth an evening.

Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.

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The review

Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.

Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.

Journal

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The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 8Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 8Courage
  5. 7Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 10Truth
  8. 8Stewardship

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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Cabrini

83 instead of 70

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    Field work, a fiddle, a carpenter's hands. Labor is stolen, and the film does not turn it into a montage of dignity-for-us.

  2. 8
    Household

    A wife and children he is trying to get back to. Other families are broken in front of him. The house is the thing slavery is designed to unmake.

  3. 4
    Piety

    Hymns, and a faith some of the enslaved hold that the masters also claim. The film does not let the claim cancel the chain.

  4. 8
    Courage

    He endures, and he finally speaks his own name and his proof. Survival here is not passivity.

  5. 7
    Republic

    The law is on the side of the kidnappers. A so-called Christian economy is the public.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    The cruelty is shown because it was the fact. It is not a thrill. It is still almost unbearable, and that is a reason to choose the room.

  7. 10
    Truth

    His freedom papers are the truth the country would not look at. The film looks.

  8. 8
    Stewardship

    What he is trying to return to is a family. The film does not pretend the years can be given back.

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