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Film · Universal · 2013

Lone Survivor

Name: Lone Survivor scores 51 — Live Historic
Item: Lone Survivor
Rating: 51
Author: Live Historic

51Watch it awake.

The loyalty is real. The film asks you to admire the fight more than to ask what the mission was for.

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The review

Peter Berg's film follows four SEALs sent to find a Taliban leader. They are discovered by goat-herds. The argument about whether to kill the civilians is the serious minute in the movie. After that the film is an ordeal of falling down a mountain and refusing to leave a teammate. I believe the ordeal. I do not believe the film knows what to do with the minute that came before it.

Adults. If you watch it with a young man, do not let the last survivor be the fantasy. Stop on the goat-herds and make the room say what it would have done, and why. Then talk about the Afghan villagers who later sheltered the survivor at risk to their own house. That shelter is in the film. It is the part a certain viewer will not quote. Quote it.

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance 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

Unbroken

64 instead of 51

Unbroken is still a war film, and it scores 64 instead of 51. What you gain is piety: The faith that reordered him after the war is thinner on screen than it was in the life.

The eight

7
Industry
Reconnaissance is a job with a rule about a goat-herd, and the rule is the moral moment.
4
Household
Wives are on a phone. The team is the household the film believes in.
3
Piety
A funeral at the end. Little before that besides the brotherhood.
8
Courage
Staying with the wounded man is courage, and the film is right to dwell on it.
5
Republic
The choice about the civilians is the republican moment, and then the shooting covers it over.
3
Temperance
The fight is very long. A house can start to cheer, which is the wrong response.
6
Truth
Based on Marcus Luttrell's account. A single account of a firefight is not the whole truth of a war.
5
Stewardship
What it leaves depends on the room. It can leave honor or it can leave a wish to be the last man.

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Film · Universal · 1916

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

51Watch it awake.

A child can watch the submarine; the bolted-on war talk is 1916, not the sea.

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The review

Captain Nemo and a submarine, and the underwater scenes were really shot underwater. That is the part I would show a child. The sea is the pleasure. This 1916 Universal picture was the year's leader on the lists still cited. It is not a later version, so don't talk over it with a newer one.

A wartime frame was added, with Nemo against a warmongering power. The added war is 1916 talking. A child can watch the boat and the water. I'd say, before that frame takes over, that the war talk was put on for the year. The dive is the part worth keeping.

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