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Film · United Artists · 1924

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Isn't Life Wonderful

75Worth an evening.

The title hopes, and the picture is still the price of a meal.

The review

We were griping about groceries, which is a foolish door into this and the right one. A poor family in Germany after the Great War. Inflation. A potato field they have to guard if they want to eat. Griffith without the parade, and not a crowd. A house can watch it. The work is the food.

The title is hopeful. I say so nobody here treats hope as supper. The picture is the price of a meal. They are not noble in some abstract way. They have to keep a field. I have never guarded a crop, and the arithmetic was still obvious. If you want wonderful as a mood, it will not flatter you. It may make the next dinner quieter. I would take that.

Journal

Keep Isn't Life Wonderful in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. 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 75

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 75. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.

The eight

9
Industry
The work is the food: a potato field they have to guard to eat.
9
Household
A poor family after the war, and the meal is the life they share.
5
Piety
No sermon from Griffith; hunger is what makes them guard the field.
8
Courage
They risk the field itself, because losing it means no meal.
6
Republic
Inflation is the public weather, and a potato field must be guarded.
8
Temperance
Want is cut down to a meal, not trained toward a further luxury.
8
Truth
The title is hopeful, and the picture stays the price of a meal.
7
Stewardship
What they can leave themselves is food, if the field holds.

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Film · Prime Video · 1957

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12 Angry Men

75Worth an evening.

Keep it. A room, a reasonable doubt, and the courage to be the first no.

The review

Eleven men want the afternoon back. The twelfth wants the testimony walked through, because a life is not a schedule. The film is a whole civics lesson in one sweatbox: prejudice with a smile, prejudice with a shout, and the slow work of looking at a knife and a train schedule until the story the state told no longer holds. Nobody is romanticized for being angry. The quiet man is not a saint. He is simply unwilling to be rushed into a killing.

A teenager should see this before they see another thriller about a genius detective. Justice here looks like staying in the chair. That is a picture this house can use.

Journal

Keep 12 Angry Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 75. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

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

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 75

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 75. What you gain is household: A father raising children in public.