Film · MGM · 1939
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Ninotchka
51Watch it awake.
She wasn't allowed a hat, and the laugh is treated as leaving the state.
The review
The ads said Garbo laughs, and the laugh is doing more than selling a ticket. A Soviet envoy comes to Paris to sell jewels and is not allowed to enjoy a hat. A Frenchman makes a project of her thaw. Lubitsch keeps the whole thing light. I had a good time and did not quite trust the ease.
A house can watch it. The pleasure is treated as a defection. It was made before the later alliance with Moscow and the war that followed, and those years complicated the joke. I would not give this to the kids as a lesson about a country. A rule that forbids a hat is already telling on itself.
Journal
Keep Ninotchka in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household 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
Singin' in the Rain
60 instead of 51
Singin' in the Rain is still a comedy film, and it scores 60 instead of 51. What you gain is stewardship: It hands a child the pleasure of practice.
The eight
- 6Industry
Her job in Paris is selling jewels for the state that sent her.
- 3Household
A Frenchman thaws her; no marriage, parent, or child is the life.
- 6Piety
Orders forbade a hat; wanting one means she stops obeying them.
- 7Courage
The pleasure is called a defection, so the laugh carries a risk.
- 5Republic
She owes a state the sale, and that state will not owe her a hat.
- 5Temperance
The film sells the hat, the thaw, and Paris as the wants to have.
- 6Truth
The rigid envoy is a pose, and the laugh shows what she hid.
- 3Stewardship
A private thaw is left, and the later war complicated the joke.
Where to watch
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