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Film · Mutual · 1914

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Home, Sweet Home

39Leave it.

The song judges the houses, and Griffith never stays in one of them.

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The review

Three pictures in a frame, more than one tale. Griffith takes the man who wrote the song, then the households the song is supposed to judge. A house can watch it. The home is the sermon. I kept looking for one family I could follow, and the frame kept handing me another.

The song does the scolding. I don't mind a sermon if it stays with one household long enough to see who does the work. This one doesn't. It wants the feeling of home more than any particular home. I came out knowing the song was meant to judge them, and not knowing the people.

Journal

Keep Home, Sweet Home in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry 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.

Consider this

The Devil Wears Prada

51 instead of 39

The Devil Wears Prada is still a drama film, and it scores 51 instead of 39. What you gain is courage: Leaving, when leaving costs the future she had started to want, is the brave act.

The eight

4
Industry
The man wrote a song; the households are only there to be judged.
6
Household
Several households sit in the frame so the song can judge them.
5
Piety
The home is the sermon, and the song is the conscience on offer.
2
Courage
Nobody risks a life they would miss; the song does the judging.
3
Republic
One public song is asked to stand in for how a town keeps house.
4
Temperance
The sermon points you home, then cuts off before the want has a cost.
4
Truth
The song promises a sweet home and only frames the households.
3
Stewardship
You leave with three pictures in a frame, not one house kept.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 1972

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Deliverance

39Leave it.

They wanted a wild weekend, and the film never gives that weekend back.

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The review

Four suburban men wanted a last wild weekend on a river a dam is about to bury. They got a trip they were not built for. The river was the point, and then it was not. One of them is changed in a way the film does not heal. That refusal to tidy the ending is the honest part.

Adult. Do not describe the assault, and do not make a contest out of who can sit through it. The dam was already going to spend the river for people who do not live on it. One of them carries that change home. If someone in the room goes quiet, stay with that, not the canoe.

Journal

Keep Deliverance in the record.