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Film · MGM · 1976

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Network

44Leave it.

The shout everybody kept is the part the movie already knew was for sale.

Take controlThis scores 44. Network cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

People kept the shout and dropped the bill. An anchorman is fired, says he will kill himself on the air, and becomes a hit. A programmer, an executive, and revolutionary terrorists who negotiate their contract: the building will air anything if the number goes up. The film is the bill. The line that got loose in ordinary speech is the part the network already knew how to sell.

Watch it with whoever still talks about television as a window. The jobs are real, which is why it stings. The skill on display is keeping a broken man on the air because the hour is working. When someone starts that famous sentence, ask what the network did with it next. Otherwise you are quoting the ad.

Journal

Keep Network in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance 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

The Natural

56 instead of 44

The Natural is still a drama film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is household: A son, a woman who waited in the ordinary way.

The eight

8
Industry
Programmers and executives do their jobs, and the jobs are the rot.
2
Household
People here are slots in a schedule. No family holds the center.
3
Piety
A breakdown becomes product. Nobody's conscience is allowed to kill the number.
3
Courage
Saying he will die on air is a collapse the building learns to sell.
6
Republic
The news is a public trust in this story, and the trust is priced.
2
Temperance
The number trains everyone to want the next hour to be louder.
7
Truth
The film shows the bill. The culture kept the shout and dropped it.
4
Stewardship
What lasted in the wild is the line, minus the warning attached to it.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

Take controlThis scores 44. If you do not want Alice in Wonderland in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.