Hacksaw Ridge

74Worth an evening.

Keep the medic. The battle is more gruesome than the conscience needs. Adults, and not for spectacle.

The review

Doss's refusal is particular and religious, and the film does not sand it into a generic pacifism. The army's attempt to break him is the first fight, and his marriage and his drunken father are part of the formation, not a prologue to skip. Then the ridge is a slaughter photographed at a length that starts to enjoy its own hell. The desk keeps the man and warns the camera. Saving seventy men one at a time is the picture. You do not need every wound to believe it.

If you watch, watch for the prayer and the lowering. Look away when the film confuses witness with indulgence.

Journal

Keep Hacksaw Ridge in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 74. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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

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A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 74

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 74. What you gain is temperance: He avoids drama as long as honesty allows.

The eight

8
Industry
A medic's repetitive, physical work.
6
Household
A hard father, a wife, a vow.
8
Piety
Faith that costs a rank and a rifle.
10
Courage
He stays on the ridge.
7
Republic
An army that does not know what to do with a conscience.
5
Temperance
The film itself does not always look away.
7
Truth
His limit is told truly.
8
Stewardship
The heirloom is the man who would not leave the wounded.

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74Worth an evening.

Understanding is the work. She says yes to a child she will lose. That yes is the film.

The review

Louise's profession is the unfashionable one: sit with a sentence until it means what the speaker meant, not what you feared. The generals want a weapon. The film thinks a grammar is more dangerous and more useful than a weapon, because a grammar changes what you are able to choose. When she sees the whole of her life with her daughter, including the end, she does not flinch into a safer timeline.

Adults, and teenagers who can be quiet. This is one of the few popular films of the decade that treats knowledge as a moral act. Watch it when the house is tempted to answer before it has understood.