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The Last of the Mohicans

55Watch it awake.

The woods, the fort, and a duty that is not abstract. The romance is larger than Cooper wrote it.

The review

Watch it for the geography and the siege, not for a lesson in courtship. Cooper's woodsman is more talk and more law than this one. The film's Hawkeye is a free man the modern audience already agrees with. That makes him easier and less interesting than the argument Cooper staged between the forest and the town.

Adults and older teens. After it, read ten pages of the novel and notice what the movie could not be bothered to argue.

Journal

Keep The Last of the Mohicans in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. 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?

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

Consider this

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

68 instead of 55

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still a adventure film, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: They hand the future to people who will never know their names.

The eight

6
Industry
Scouting and siege. Someone still has to know the country.
5
Household
He chooses a woman in a war. The families behind them are mostly offscreen.
3
Piety
No real worship. Fate and nerve do the work of faith.
9
Courage
People go back for the ones who cannot keep up.
6
Republic
Empires are using the frontier. The film prefers the man who belongs to neither.
4
Temperance
The violence is beautiful on purpose. That is a fault.
6
Truth
The siege happened. The love story is a twentieth-century enlargement.
5
Stewardship
What survives is a pair, not a settlement.

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Film · Film · 2013

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The Immigrant

55Watch it awake.

A severe film about a woman trying to keep her sister and her own conduct in a city that prices both.

The review

This is not a warm immigrant story, and it should not be. The shelf includes it because the alternative is a lie about what a woman alone at Ellis Island could be made to do. The film is adult and grim and, at its best, about a conscience that survives circumstances a sermon never pictured.

Adults only. Do not use it to shock a teenager into gratitude. Use it, if you use it, to tell the truth that arrival was not automatically dignity.

Journal

Keep The Immigrant in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

The Truman Show

66 instead of 55

The Truman Show is still a drama film, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is republic: A town of actors is a tyranny with good weather.