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Film · 20th Century · 1941

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How Green Was My Valley

68Worth an evening.

The prize went here instead of Kane, and the coal is what the family actually lived.

The review

The prize went here, the year of Kane, and I want that said before the valley turns pretty. A boy remembers a family of miners. A strike splits the brothers. The mine is the work and the dust. A sister's love is gossiped to death. A solid gross, behind Sergeant York. A house can watch it. The coal is the life, not the green in the title.

I am not going to treat the prize as proof of a gentler truth. The brothers do not stay one house once the strike starts. The gossip is a town being cruel and calling it talk. A child can follow the boy if you sit there for the strike, so the valley does not become a postcard. What he remembers is already going.

Journal

Keep How Green Was My Valley in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

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

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 68

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 68. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

8
Industry
The mine is the work and the dust the family's living comes out of.
8
Household
A strike splits the brothers, and a sister's love is gossiped to death.
4
Piety
Gossip destroys a sister's love, and the valley does not stop the talk.
7
Courage
Brothers split on a strike and risk the house they still share.
8
Republic
A strike divides the miners, and gossip is the town punishing a sister.
5
Temperance
The valley talks a sister's love to death instead of putting the talk down.
7
Truth
Gossip costs a sister her love, and the prize did not clean that up.
7
Stewardship
What the boy remembers is a valley the mine and the strike are already spending.

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Film · Prime Video · 1942

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Casablanca

68Worth an evening.

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

The review

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.