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Film · DreamWorks · 2012

Lincoln

Name: Lincoln scores 80 — Live Historic
Item: Lincoln
Rating: 80
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80Living historically.

A film about a vote. The greatness is the work of getting the votes, not the monument.

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The review

The pleasure of the film is that it refuses the statue. Lincoln is funny, political, and tired. He wants the war won and he wants the amendment passed before the war's end makes the amendment convenient to postpone. The men he leans on are not pure. The vote is still the right vote. A child who has only met him on a penny can watch this and meet a craftsman.

Adults and older teenagers. It is talk. The talk is the battle. After it, the charge is small and hard: a principle you will not trade is only real if you can say what you are willing to lose for it. He could.

Journal

Keep Lincoln in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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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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A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 80

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 80. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.

The eight

9
Industry
Politics is shown as labor: counting, trading, sitting up, sending men into the mud to ask.
6
Household
A marriage under the weight of a dead son. The house is not a rest from the war.
6
Piety
He speaks of God as a man who has had to decide, not as a decoration on a speech.
8
Courage
He spends his capital and his peace on the amendment when he could have banked the victory.
10
Republic
The republic is the subject. A law, a Congress, and whether the promise can be made true.
8
Temperance
Almost no appetite. The excess is talk, and the talk is the work.
8
Truth
He will bend a man and he will not bend the amendment. The film shows both.
9
Stewardship
What he is handing the country is a sentence in the Constitution that outlives him by weeks.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

80Living historically.

He gives the years to other people's boys, and the marriage that opened him doesn't get to stay.

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The review

Most pictures about a teacher want a speech near the end. This one wants the years. A shy man at an English public school spends his life with other people's boys. He marries, briefly, a woman who opens him. She dies. He stays. Robert Donat. A house can watch it. I didn't need a louder moral than the fact that he doesn't leave the work.

The marriage is a real life, and it is short. Generations of boys are the household he actually has. He risks the closed way he was living when he lets her in, then he stays through the long stretch without her. I would put this on when you are tired of loud duty. It is gentle. It is also a whole job, which gentle films sometimes fake and this one keeps.

Journal

Keep Goodbye, Mr. Chips in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 80. 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

A Man for All Seasons

89 instead of 80

A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 80. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.

The eight

9
Industry
The school is the work of his life, and the boys are why the days count.
8
Household
A brief marriage opens him; the boys, year after year, are the household he has.
7
Piety
He could have closed up after she dies, and the conscience in him stays.
7
Courage
He risks the shy life he had, then stays on after the wife who opened him.
8
Republic
He owes the school and each wave of boys who pass through it.
8
Temperance
A quiet life, and nothing in it trains you to want a flashier one.
8
Truth
She dies and he stays; the long years are not dressed up as a romance.
9
Stewardship
What remains is generations of other people's boys, taught and sent on.

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Lincoln

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A Man for All Seasons

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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A Man for All Seasons

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