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Film · Universal · 1981

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On Golden Pond

68Worth an evening.

Put it on a quiet night when a parent and a child are both home.

The review

An old couple has a summer at a lake. Their daughter is afraid of her father, and her stepson goes out in the boat with the old man. If that sounds small, good. The film refuses the speech about aging. The reconciliation is a person, a boat, a birthday. I believed it because nobody stood up and explained what the lake meant.

Leave this on for a family that still has a grandparent in reach. The marriage is a life, not a frame around the young people. The boy is not there to be cute. He is the one who gets in the boat. You do not carry out a proverb about growing old. You carry the hope that a frightened daughter and a hard father can still give a child one good afternoon.

Journal

Keep On Golden Pond in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

To Kill a Mockingbird

81 instead of 68

To Kill a Mockingbird is still a drama film, and it scores 81 instead of 68. What you gain is industry: Law practiced as a craft, not a performance.

The eight

3
Industry
Nobody's paid work matters here; the summer at the lake is the task.
9
Household
An old marriage, a frightened daughter, and a boy in the boat are the life.
7
Piety
Repair comes as a boat and a birthday, not as a speech that sounds holy.
7
Courage
A daughter afraid of her father still comes, and the boy gets in the boat.
4
Republic
The duty is inside one family at a lake, not toward a town or a law.
8
Temperance
The film will not milk a speech about aging, and the feeling stays small.
8
Truth
The reconciliation is a particular person, boat, and birthday, not a slogan.
8
Stewardship
A boy gets an afternoon with the old man, which is something left that is real.

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Film · Prime Video · 1942

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Casablanca

68Worth an evening.

Keep it. A private wound is not a reason to sit out the fight.

The review

Rick's neutrality is a costume for a hurt. Ilsa did not leave for a whim, and the film is adult enough to say so without making either of them a villain of the heart. The letters of transit are a public good disguised as a plot device. When he gives them up, he is not choosing loneliness as a style. He is putting a marriage and a resistance ahead of a feeling that was real and is no longer his to spend.

Watch it with anyone old enough to understand a goodbye. Then refuse the poster version, where the love is the point. The love is the test. The point is that he gets on the right side of a war.

Journal

Keep Casablanca in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. 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.

Consider this

Saving Private Ryan

75 instead of 68

Saving Private Ryan is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 68. What you gain is industry: A squad has ranks, rifles, a captain who teaches.