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Film · United Artists · 1967

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In the Heat of the Night

70Worth an evening.

They arrested the best investigator in the room because he had money on him.

The review

A Black detective from Philadelphia is arrested for a murder in Mississippi because he is a stranger with money. He is the best investigator in the room. The sheriff has to work with him anyway. The town is the case as much as the body. A slap is returned. That is a small gesture and it carries the picture: he will not wear the insult that was supposed to end the argument.

It won best picture, and for once the prize matches the job. Two men who do not want each other still owe a killing an answer. I would put this on before a cop story that thinks the badge is a personality. Here the law is a town that did not want him, and the work makes the town use him. Watch the partnership, not the poster. The murder matters because the place does.

Journal

Keep In the Heat of the Night in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 70

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a crime film, and it scores 81 instead of 70. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.

The eight

9
Industry
He is the best investigator in the room, and the case is the actual work.
3
Household
A murder and a town, not a marriage or a child carrying the story.
6
Piety
He returns the slap instead of agreeing he had no right to stand there.
8
Courage
He stays and works in a town that arrested him for being a stranger.
9
Republic
The sheriff owes him the case, and the town is as much the crime as the body.
6
Temperance
Pride and insult run hot, and the picture keeps both men on the work.
8
Truth
Jailing him for the money in his pocket is the lie the case has to undo.
7
Stewardship
The town is left with a case it had to solve beside a man it did not want.

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Film · Fox Searchlight · 2013

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12 Years a Slave

70Worth an evening.

Keep it for adults who can bear it. A free man, a paper, a wife and children, and a country that called the theft law.

The review

Solomon Northup was a citizen of New York with a wife, children, and a trade, and the United States allowed him to be sold. The film's discipline is to stay with the time. It does not offer a white savior as the meaning, though a man finally carries a letter. The meaning is the letter, the name, and the fact that the law had to be contradicted by a person willing to act. Patsey's suffering is not there for our refinement. It is there because leaving her out would be another theft.

Adults. Do not put it on as a background of importance. If you watch it, watch it through, and do not follow it with a cheerful picture the same night. The charge is not a feeling. The charge is to know that a legal theft is still a theft, and to be the person who carries the letter.

Journal

Keep 12 Years a Slave in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 70. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

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Cabrini

83 instead of 70

Cabrini is still a drama film, and it scores 83 instead of 70. What you gain is piety: The vow is the engine, and it is not a costume.