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Film · Warner Bros. · 1964

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My Fair Lady

58Watch it awake.

The lessons are real work. The man who gives them nearly misses that she is not his result.

The review

A bet: he can teach a flower seller to speak so that a room of rich people will not know where she came from. The lessons are work, and the film respects the work. She is hungry and funny and she submits to the drill because she wants a shop of her own, not because she wants to be his proof. The ball is the experiment succeeding. It is also the moment the experiment reveals what it was.

He falls in love with the result and is offended when the result has a will. That is the part worth the evening. The songs can carry a house. The last reconciliation is softer than the argument deserves, and I would not let it erase the argument. She was not a vase. If you watch it, stay through the scene where she says she is leaving, and do not skip ahead to the comfort.

Journal

Keep My Fair Lady in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. 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.

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Mary Poppins

69 instead of 58

Mary Poppins is still a musical film, and it scores 69 instead of 58. What you gain is household: The children are the point of the house, and the film does not trade them for a career.

The eight

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Industry
Speech is taught as drill, and the drill is the plot, not a montage of charm.
5
Household
She wants a life, not a vase on his shelf, and the house he offers is late and proud.
3
Piety
No reverence except the stubborn fact that a person is not a bet.
6
Courage
She leaves the house that remade her, which is the brave sentence in a film of lessons.
5
Republic
Class is the public fact. The debt he owes is to her, and he is slow to pay it.
6
Temperance
The excess is the ball. The film does not pretend the ball is a marriage.
7
Truth
He wanted the triumph. The film lets her say the triumph was not his to keep.
6
Stewardship
What a house can keep is her refusal, not his satisfaction at the experiment.

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Film · Columbia · 1959

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Anatomy of a Murder

58Watch it awake.

Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.

The review

A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.

Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.

Journal

Keep Anatomy of a Murder in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

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12 Angry Men

75 instead of 58

12 Angry Men is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 58. What you gain is stewardship: It hands you the duty to be inconvenient.