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Film · Columbia · 1967

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In Cold Blood

60Watch it awake.

No charming outlaw. A family, a safe that was not full, and a hanging.

The review

From Capote's book, in black and white. Two ex-convicts kill a Kansas family in a farmhouse for a safe that is not full. The film follows the investigation and the men to the hanging. I will not describe the murders. Adult, and the restraint is part of how you should watch it. There is no charming outlaw here.

That refusal is the reason I would trust it over the pretty crime pictures. The motive is small and stupid. The loss is a household. Nothing in the style asks you to miss the men more than the people they ended. It does not give the family back. It also does not lend the killers a legend. If the room has been living on bandits it likes, this is the one that will not play along.

Journal

Keep In Cold Blood in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Stewardship are the thin ones.

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

12 Angry Men

75 instead of 60

12 Angry Men is still a crime film, and it scores 75 instead of 60. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you the duty to be inconvenient.

The eight

6
Industry
The work on screen is the investigation, then the road to the hanging.
7
Household
A farm family is the life that was ended, not a prop for an outlaw tale.
4
Piety
Nothing in the pair stops them, and the hanging is the law's last word.
4
Courage
Investigators follow it through; the killers risk nothing worth the word.
8
Republic
A Kansas town, a murder, and a hanging: the law stays with it to the end.
7
Temperance
There is no charming outlaw, so the film does not train you to want one.
9
Truth
The safe was not full, the family is dead, and the story does not dress that up.
3
Stewardship
Nothing is restored to the farm. What remains is the record and the hanging.

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Film · Prime Video · 2019

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An Arthur Thanksgiving

60Watch it awake.

A small holiday special with a real table. Fine for children.

The review

Arthur's neighborhood has always been better at ordinary friction than at myths. Thanksgiving here is cooking, guests, a snag, and a meal that still happens. That is more useful than a pageant. Gratitude that has not met a late aunt and a crowded kitchen is only a slogan.

It will not change a life. It may remind a room that the feast is the people who came, including the difficult ones. Put it on while you peel the potatoes.

Journal

Keep An Arthur Thanksgiving in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage is the thin one.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

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

Consider this

The Iron Giant

73 instead of 60

The Iron Giant is still a animation film, and it scores 73 instead of 60. What you gain is courage: He stays up so the town can live.