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Film · Britain · 1905

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Our New Errand Boy

21Leave it.

The errand boy is the hero for wrecking a grocer, and the shop is the victim.

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The review

Haggar, in Britain, in 1905. An errand boy plays tricks and a chase follows. A child can watch it. He makes a grocer's life impossible. The nuisance is the hero, and the shop is the victim. I had that straight before the amusement wore off, which did not take long.

A child here has pulled a version of this with no camera around. That does not make the picture a friend. The grocer has a living, and the laugh is the wreck of it. Nobody stops the boy because he ought to stop. The tricks are the product. I'd let a kid see it once, then ask whose day got ruined. Funny is not the whole of it.

Journal

Keep Our New Errand Boy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 21. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship 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

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

33 instead of 21

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is still a comedy film, and it scores 33 instead of 21. What you gain is courage: Cameron finally refuses his father's fear.

The eight

4
Industry
The grocer's living is the target, and the errand boy won't do the job.
2
Household
A boy is the nuisance-hero, not a child whose home is the story.
1
Piety
He plays tricks on the shop, and nothing like a conscience stops him.
1
Courage
Tricks on a grocer are not a risk the boy would miss if they failed.
3
Republic
The shop is a neighbor's living, and the chase comes after the damage.
2
Temperance
The nuisance is the hero, so the next trick is the thing you are sold.
2
Truth
An errand is a small promise to the shop, and he spends the reel breaking it.
2
Stewardship
The shop is the victim, and the laugh leaves the grocer's day worse.

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Film · Prime Video · 2000

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American Psycho

21Leave it.

The satire is real. The invitation to enjoy him is the problem. Adults. Do not quote him.

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The review

Bateman is what a certain greed looks like when it no longer bothers to impersonate a person. The film is often called a comedy, and the comedy is the colleagues, the cards, the restaurants, the inability to tell one empty man from another. That joke lands. The violence is not the joke. It is the film forgetting it had a point and reaching for a gasp.

You do not need his morning routine in your mouth. The useful line is dull: a life measured by reservations is already over, even if no one is bleeding. Leave the rest in the drawer.

Journal

Keep American Psycho in the record.