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Film · Pathé · 1922

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Nanook of the North

40Leave it.

The skill on the ice is real, the family was arranged, and this is not a plain record.

Take controlThis scores 40. Nanook of the North cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

We put it on like a plain Arctic record, and I had to correct that out loud. A man and a family hunt and build a shelter. Robert Flaherty, 1922, sold as a documentary and popular as one. The name Nanook was given for the film. The igloo was built open so the camera could see. Fine for a house, once somebody says it was staged.

Skill on the ice is real. The story is arranged. I won't call this a plain record, and I don't want the kids treating a posed family as if the camera just happened past. Hunting and a shelter are true work. If you skip the arrangement, the night teaches a lie about documents.

Journal

Keep Nanook of the North in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship 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.

Consider this

God With Us

50 instead of 40

God With Us is still a documentary film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is piety: The title aims at worship.

The eight

7
Industry
Hunting and building a shelter are real skills, though the scenes were arranged.
4
Household
A family is shown, and Flaherty arranged that family for the camera.
2
Piety
The staged hunt never asks anyone's conscience to refuse a thing.
6
Courage
Work on the ice carries real danger, even in a hunt set up for the lens.
3
Republic
An arranged household on the ice, not a town bound by law to a neighbor.
4
Temperance
The igloo was built open so the camera could keep taking the picture.
3
Truth
Nanook's name was given for the film, and the igloo was opened for the lens.
3
Stewardship
What it left is a hit people mistook for a record of a life it staged.

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Film · Touchstone · 1998

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

Take controlThis scores 40. Armageddon cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.