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Film · United Artists · 1960

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Inherit the Wind

61Watch it awake.

Watch it awake. The teacher is the point. The two great men are not, and the film sometimes forgets.

The review

A teacher is arrested for what he taught about the origin of man, and the town is about to make an example of him. Two lawyers arrive who are larger than the town and know it. One is defending the teacher. One is defending a faith he has turned into a weapon. The film is on the teacher's side, and it should be. It is also a little in love with the defending lawyer's contempt, and a house should not be.

Watch it for the classroom and the right to teach. Then notice when the film invites you to sneer at people for believing, rather than for coercing. Those are different acts. The coercion is the crime. The belief is not. Older students can take the distinction if you pause the film and make it. Do not let the wittier lawyer become the lesson all by himself. Wit is not the same as the truth, and the film's own last kindness toward the other lawyer is the part worth trusting.

Journal

Keep Inherit the Wind in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. 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?

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

Consider this

High Noon

74 instead of 61

High Noon is still a drama film, and it scores 74 instead of 61. What you gain is courage: He walks the street alone.

The eight

6
Industry
A trial is prepared and argued. The work of the teacher was teaching, which started it.
4
Household
A daughter and a fiance are caught between the town and the defendant.
6
Piety
Faith is in the room as a real thing people hold, not only as a joke the smart lawyer tells.
7
Courage
The teacher risks the town he lives in. The lawyers risk less than they think.
8
Republic
A school and a court are the public. The debt is to the students, and to a town that is not a mob in fact.
5
Temperance
The speeches run long, and the film enjoys a speech the way the lawyers do.
7
Truth
Both vanities are shown. The film is harder on one, and a fair house should notice.
6
Stewardship
You can inherit the defense of a teacher. Do not inherit the contempt for the town.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2005

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Batman Begins

61Watch it awake.

Fear, a city, a training. The serious costume film, before the carnival. Worth an evening.

The review

Before the later films made a villain the attraction, this one was about a rich boy who is afraid and a city whose institutions have been bought. The teacher in the mountains offers a clean justice that would kill the city to save it. The refusal of that teacher is the moral event. A butler and a cop are the ordinary courage beside the costume.

Adults and older teens. It is a better evening than the spectacle that came after it in the genre. Ask what kind of fear is a tool and what kind is a teacher you should leave on the mountain.

Journal

Keep Batman Begins in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. 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

Spider-Man 2

73 instead of 61

Spider-Man 2 is still a action film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is courage: He goes back after he has quit.