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Film · Bleecker Street · 2017

Megan Leavey

Name: Megan Leavey scores 66 — Live Historic
Item: Megan Leavey
Rating: 66
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66Worth an evening.

A handler and a dog. The work is real. A house can sit with it.

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The review

Megan Leavey is undisciplined and half-gone when she enlists. The film does not romanticize the girl she was. The Marine Corps gives her a structure, and then a German shepherd who will not work for anyone he does not trust. Iraq is the test of that pair. The better half of the movie is the American half, after, when the military is finished with the dog and she is not.

A family can watch this with an older child. Say that a dog is not a metaphor you get to keep if you will not do the paperwork. The film's sentiment is real and a little neat. Keep the neatness in its place. The part to copy is a person who takes responsibility for a life that cannot fill out a form.

Journal

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No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 66. 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

Letters from Iwo Jima

76 instead of 66

Letters from Iwo Jima is still a war film, and it scores 76 instead of 66. What you gain is piety: General Kuribayashi's restraint is a kind of piety: he will not spend the men on a gesture.

The eight

8
Industry
Handling a dog that can get a patrol killed is a job, and she learns it.
6
Household
She is leaving a thin home. The dog becomes the creature she answers for.
4
Piety
Duty stands in for faith. The film does not fake a conversion.
7
Courage
She goes where the dog goes, including toward the thing that will explode.
6
Republic
The fight after the war is with a bureaucracy that classifies a dog as equipment.
7
Temperance
The explosions are few. The bond is the plot, and it earns the time.
7
Truth
Based on a handler and a dog named Rex. The film is kinder than a report and still about the right pair.
8
Stewardship
What it leaves is a question of loyalty after the uniform comes off.

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Film · 20th Century · 1979

Alien

66Worth an evening.

Ripley reads the quarantine rule. The company already decided the crew was expendable.

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The fright is what people quote. The paperwork is what decides it. A commercial towing crew, not soldiers, answers a signal. The company wants the organism. On the forms the crew is expendable. Ripley, the warrant officer, reads the quarantine rule. Someone brings the organism back aboard anyway.

Adult, and I am not going to describe the body. She is not a chosen one. She is the officer whose work is to say no when the cargo is worth more to the firm than the people hauling it. Watch who treats them as a line item and who treats them as a crew. The rule was the promise. Breaking it is the bill, and the company had already signed the crew away.

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