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Film · MGM · 1930

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Min and Bill

61Watch it awake.

The pair isn't legal, and they're still the ones keeping that girl.

The review

I didn't expect to take their side this hard. Min and Bill are a waterfront pair, unofficial, and they raised a girl the girl's own mother wants back. Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. He is soaked in rum. The law sits there as a threat, right beside the mother. A house can watch it. I won't go past this: Min will not let the girl be taken.

The household isn't a certificate. It's the years they already spent. That doesn't make the rum a virtue, and I won't call the law a villain in every other story. It does mean a cleaner claim on paper can still be the danger. If you put this on, say the household is real before anyone starts scoring the licenses.

Journal

Keep Min and Bill in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

Babe

73 instead of 61

Babe is still a comedy film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is temperance: Gentle authority.

The eight

6
Industry
Dressler keeps a waterfront life while she tries to hold the girl.
9
Household
They raised the girl without a license, and that house is still a life.
7
Piety
Min will not let the girl be taken, whatever the mother and the law want.
8
Courage
Keeping her means facing the law and the mother, not staying quiet.
3
Republic
The law arrives as a threat to the pair, not as a town they can trust.
3
Temperance
Beery's man is rum-soaked, and nothing in the story cures that thirst.
6
Truth
The mother has the claim; the years they raised the girl are the other fact.
7
Stewardship
What they fight to leave is the girl, kept from the mother who wants her.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2005

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Batman Begins

61Watch it awake.

Fear, a city, a training. The serious costume film, before the carnival. Worth an evening.

The review

Before the later films made a villain the attraction, this one was about a rich boy who is afraid and a city whose institutions have been bought. The teacher in the mountains offers a clean justice that would kill the city to save it. The refusal of that teacher is the moral event. A butler and a cop are the ordinary courage beside the costume.

Adults and older teens. It is a better evening than the spectacle that came after it in the genre. Ask what kind of fear is a tool and what kind is a teacher you should leave on the mountain.

Journal

Keep Batman Begins in the record.