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Film · Warner Bros. · 2015

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Mad Max: Fury Road

59Watch it awake.

The chase is a rescue. Keep that sentence. The spectacle will try to replace it. Adults.

The review

Furiosa is the protagonist, and the film is unusually clear about what she is doing: removing people from a man who owns their bodies, and then deciding that escape into the salt is not enough if the water stays locked upstairs. Max is a helper. That reversal is the grown choice. The wives are not a reward. They are the reason the truck moves.

Adults. The violence is constant and often gorgeous, which is the hazard. If you watch it, do not come away talking about the guitar. Come away talking about who was property, and what it cost to say they were not. Then turn it off. You do not need a second chase.

Journal

Keep Mad Max: Fury Road in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. 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

Incredibles 2

71 instead of 59

Incredibles 2 is still a action film, and it scores 71 instead of 59. What you gain is temperance: The screen that decides for you is the villain.

The eight

7
Industry
A rig, a mechanic, water rationed. Survival is a trade, and Furiosa is better at it than the myth.
6
Household
The wives are a household escaping a man who called them breeding stock. That is the plot.
2
Piety
A cult of a steering wheel and a steering god. The film shows it as a prison.
8
Courage
She turns the truck around and goes back through the army. He goes with her.
6
Republic
A citadel that hoards water. The political fact is simple and the film does not blur it.
3
Temperance
The beauty of the crash is an appetite. Two hours of it trains the eye.
8
Truth
They are not cargo. The film's whole truth is that sentence, enforced with a gearshift.
7
Stewardship
What they bring back is the water, for the people at the bottom, not a new king's name.

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Film · Prime Video · 2004

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Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

59Watch it awake.

Two girls, one duty. Better than the poster. Still a doll's film.

The review

The pauper works. The princess is being sold into a marriage to save a bankrupt court. The film treats that sale as wrong and the work as honorable, which is more than most pink posters manage. They help each other. The poor girl is not a moral lesson the rich girl consumes.

The songs are candy and the ending is a double wedding. Fine for a child who wants a dress and a plot. Say out loud that a real household is not saved by a secret twin. It is saved by the work the pauper already knew how to do.

Journal

Keep Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper in the record.