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Film · Britain · 1903

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Mary Jane's Mishap

15Leave it.

The boot-polish face and the explosion are both jokes, and you have to say so.

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The review

A maid, paraffin, a graveyard. Smith, 1903. Mary Jane blacks her face with boot polish, pours paraffin on the fire, and the film plays her ghost for laughs. The explosion is a trick. The blacking is a smear played as comedy. A teen can watch it. Both of those laughs need saying, or the room will treat them as quaint.

I was already tired, and a trick blast played for fun did not rest me. Her face is blacked as comedy and her end is a gag. That is the use they make of her. I won't invent the graveyard business past the ghost they play for laughs. If it queues up, say the polish and the blast are jokes. Then it can be over.

Journal

Keep Mary Jane's Mishap in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 15. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

The Kissing Booth 3

28 instead of 15

The Kissing Booth 3 is still a comedy film, and it scores 28 instead of 15. What you gain is household: A friendship and a father are in the frame.

The eight

3
Industry
She is a maid; paraffin on the fire is the work turned into a blast.
2
Household
A servant's mishap is the gag, not a family treated as a life.
1
Piety
Nothing stops the laugh at her blacked face or the paraffin blast.
1
Courage
She pours paraffin for a joke of a disaster, not a chosen risk.
1
Republic
No neighbor or law is owed; a graveyard ghost is played for laughs.
1
Temperance
The explosion is a joke, so the reel trains the next laugh.
2
Truth
Boot-polish blacking is a smear played as comedy, and the blast is a trick.
1
Stewardship
Left behind: a blacked face as comedy and a ghost played for laughs.

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Film · Prime Video · 2006

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The Secret

15Leave it.

No. Desire is not a metaphysics. Work and your neighbor are not optional.

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The review

The law of attraction flatters the comfortable and indicts the suffering, because if the thought makes the world, the sick have been thinking badly. That is a cruel doctrine in a soft voice. It is also a denial of labor, of other people's freedom, and of any God who is not your mood. The production is a sermon for a market.

Do not put it on as harmlessly motivational. Motivation that blames the poor for their thoughts is a lie with a chandelier. If someone in the house has been handed this as medicine, take it out of their hands and give them a real errand and a real friend.