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Film · France · 1902

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Gulliver's Travels

26Leave it.

Fun size tricks a child can watch, and not the satire Swift actually wrote.

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The review

The little ones can see this one. Méliès puts a man among people the size of toys, and then the sizes reverse. The trick of size is the pleasure. A child can watch it, and it does not pretend to be a later feature.

Don't hand them Swift on the back of it. The satire of the book is not what this reel is for. Big and small, clever enough, and finished when the trick is finished. The biting part of the book can wait for another night.

Journal

Keep Gulliver's Travels in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage 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.

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Descendants

38 instead of 26

Descendants is still a fantasy film, and it scores 38 instead of 26. What you gain is household: Parents as famous silhouettes.

The eight

3
Industry
Méliès's real job is the scale trick; the voyage is only the frame.
2
Household
No marriage or child is in it; a child can still watch the sizes.
2
Piety
Conscience never comes up; the book's moral bite is not this reel.
2
Courage
Tiny and huge are tricks, not a danger he would miss at home.
2
Republic
Swift's satire of states is famous, and this reel is not doing it.
3
Temperance
Each size change asks for the next one, and then the reel is over.
4
Truth
The sizes are honest tricks; the satire of the book is simply absent.
3
Stewardship
A child leaves with a size trick, not with Swift, and not with much else.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.