Film · MGM · 1942
Pass it on
Mrs. Miniver
65Worth an evening.
The village courage is real, and the neatness is what this war film was selling.
The review
A middle-class English wife keeps a house while the war arrives. A son is in the air. There's a boat on the channel. A lady will not yield a flower show. The kitchen is no longer safe. Americans loved it. Best picture, and the live-action crowd of its year. I believe the courage in that village. I don't believe how tidy the fear was kept.
That neatness is also what the war film was selling. You can respect the boat and the son and still feel managed. A family can watch it. Say that a flower show is a small stand, and a kitchen that isn't safe is the clearer one. Don't let the polish tell the kids the war stayed polite.
Journal
Keep Mrs. Miniver in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Saving Private Ryan
75 instead of 65
Saving Private Ryan is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 65. What you gain is truth: It refuses the clean war.
The eight
- 7Industry
She keeps a house, a son flies, and a village boat goes to the channel.
- 9Household
A wife, a son, and a kitchen are the life the war actually walks into.
- 5Piety
A lady will not yield the flower show, which is pride as much as a stop.
- 8Courage
The son is in the air, the boat goes, and the kitchen is no longer safe.
- 8Republic
The village owes the channel a boat and owes its own houses a defense.
- 4Temperance
The neatness trains you to want a war that still looks like a kept house.
- 5Truth
The unsafe kitchen is honest, and the tidy courage is the part being sold.
- 6Stewardship
A house is kept through the war, if you don't trust the polish around it.
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